BRITISH FRIENDS OF ORAYTA
Registered Charity
No: 1181839
Report and Accounts
For the year ended 31st December 2025
BRITISH FRIENDS OF ORAYTA
Statement of Financial Actvites - Account for the year ended 31st December 2025
| 2024 £ 27,032 23,396 3,636 ====== 3,636 Nil 3,636 ====== Nil 3,636 3,636 ====== |
Income Donatons Received Expenditure Grant making to Orayta Net surplus/(defcit) for the year Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2025 Assets Cash at Barclays Bank Liabilites: Creditors Represented by: Accumulaton Income and Expenditure Account Balance as at 1stJanuary 2025 Net surplus/(defcit) for the year Balance as at 31stDecember 2025 |
2025 £ 16,574 20,135 |
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| (3,561) ====== 75 Nil 75 ====== 3,636 (3,561) |
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| 75 ====== |
Daniel Clements, Trustee and Chair
Date approved: 24 August 2026
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British Friends of Orayta
Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2025
The Trustees present their annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 and confirm that they comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Constitution of British Friends of Orayta, and the Charities SORP (FRS 102).
Reference and Administrative information
Charity name British Friends of Orayta Charity Registration Number 1181839 Address 105 Bristol Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7TX
Trustees
Daniel Clements Geoffrey Clements Alan Stanton
Bankers
Barclays Bank 161 High Street Kings Heath Birmingham B14 7LA
British Friends of Orayta Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2025
Structure, Governance, and Management
Governing Document
British Friends of Orayta is constituted as a charity registered with the Charity Commission in February 2019 under Charity Number 1181839. It is governed by a Constitution last updated in January 2019.
Organisational Structure
The charity trustees are responsible for the general control and management of the charity. The trustees give their time freely and receive no remuneration or other financial benefits.
The trustees meet annually to take decisions relating to the activities of the charity. There are no subcommittees.
Recruitment and appointment of trustees
The trustees are former students or have a relationship with Orayta. Trustees are selected because of their relationship with Orayta and evidence of participation in the life of the organisation. Trustees shall have competences in finance, or third sector organisations, or professional involvement in education.
Induction and training of trustees
New trustees are given copies of the Constitution. A number of publications from the Charity Commission in hard copy or electronic form are provided including the guidance on charities and the public benefit and on the advancement of religion for the public benefit.
Risk Management
The trustees have assessed the risks the charity faces which relate the level of continuing donations to the charity. The trustees review the risks at their meetings and consider that they are negligible as the charity has no costs and all income is passed on to Orayta.
Objectives and activities
Our objectives
These are set out in our Constitution and are:
THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH BY MAKING GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS AND/OR RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WHICH FURTHER THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY MAKING SUCH GRANTS TO YESHIVAT ORAYTA IN ISRAEL.
Our activities
The charity receives donations from students (former and current) of Orayta, parents of students (former and current), communal organisations, charitable trusts, and individual donors who are not parents of students at Orayta. Several times a year the accumulated funds are transferred to Orayta to assist with their expenditure requirements.
Statement of compliance with the public benefit duty under the Charities Act 2011
In setting our objectives and planning our activities, the trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular to its supplementary public benefit guidance on advancing education.
Financial review
The trustees’ policy is to transfer to Orayta all accumulated funds several times a year leaving only a small positive balance in our account.
Principal Funding Sources
The charity’s only source of funding is voluntary donations. Our income for the period ending 31[st] December 2025 of £16,574 (2024 £27,032) came from parents of former and current students and individual supporters of Orayta.
Investments
The charity has no investments.
Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities
The charity trustees are responsible for preparing an annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards.
The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the charity trustees to prepare financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing the financial statements the trustees are required to:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
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Observe the methods and principles in the charities SORP
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
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State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements
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Prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the Constitution. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees for the purposes of charity law who served during the year and up to the date of this report are set out on page 1.
Approved by the trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Daniel Clements, Chair 24 August 2026
BRITISH FRIENDS OF ORAYTA
Notes to the Accounts
1: Accountng Policies
a: Basis of preparaton
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), FRS 102 and the Charities Act 2011. The following are the accounting policies which have been applied in dealing with material items:
b: Funds structure
All funds are unrestricted. The charity has not designated any funds for a specific purpose.
c: Incoming resources.
All incoming resources are recognised once the charity has entitlement to the resources. It is certain the resources will be received , and the monetary value of incoming resources can be measured with sufficient reliability. Voluntary donations are included in the statement of financial activities when receivable. The charity does not receive any grants, donated services, or investment income. The charity has no trading activity.
d: Resources expended.
Liabilities are recognised as resources expended as soon as there is legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to the expenditure. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under the headings that aggregate all costs related to the category.
e: Irrecoverable VAT.
Irrecoverable VAT is charged against the category of resources expended for which it was incurred.
f: Allocaton of overhead and support costs, costs of generatng funds, costs of charitable actvites, Governance costs, purchase
of fxed assets and depreciaton, and pensions.
No costs were incurred and no assets purchased. No assets are held and there is no depreciation. There are no employees and no pension obligations.
2: Related part transactons and trustee remuneraton.
Trustees received no emoluments and did not claim any expenses
3: Corporaton Tax.
The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within Section 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or Section 252 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent these are applied to its charitable objects. No tax charges have arisen in the charity.
4: Staf costs.
There are no employees.
5: Fixed assets: Tangible assets.
There are no fixed assets.
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