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UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers

27 /100

Clarity score

Poor

Charity accounts, evidence & financial rating

27/100 Clarity Score · 2 stars · Charity Commission filings · How we score

Register checked 4 October 2026 · latest accounts 2025

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Is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers a good charity?

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers scores 27/100 (2 stars, Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, calculated from its UK regulator filings. Its latest accounts year is 2025 (£375k total income, 64% cause spend, 2-yr avg). This reflects financial transparency and stewardship on paper — not the real-world impact of its programmes. See the full breakdown.

Income

£375k

Accounts 2025-03-31

Spending

£545k

Accounts 2025-03-31

Charitable activities

64%

2-yr avg · share of spending

Accounts filing

Late

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What does UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers do?

The principal objects of the charity are:1) The relief of need and suffering of serving and discharged Israeli soldiers and their families2) The advancement of education of serving and discharged Israeli soldiers3) to provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare.

Activities reported by the charity on the official register · extract . This is separate from the accounts data used for its rating.

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How much does UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers raise and spend?

Accounts period 2024-04-01 to 2025-03-31 · Source: Charity Commission filings

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers revenue and expenses for 2025
Category Amount % of spend
Total income £375k —
Total expenditure £545k —
Charitable activities Not disclosed —

What changed in UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers’s latest accounts?

Reported totals for 2025 compared with 2024. Changes can reflect the accounting period, restricted grants or restructuring as well as the charity’s work.

Income change
−50.9%
£763k → £375k
Spending change
−30.1%
£780k → £545k
Charitable activities share
Not disclosed
Both years need a disclosed spending split.

These are annual figures. The Clarity Score may use averages across several disclosed years. Source: official accounts.

Where does the money go?

Latest accounts (2025) · £545k spent. Not disclosed in this filing — the Charity Commission return omits the charitable-activities split.

From the annual return

What does UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers pay its staff, and where does its money come from?

Answers UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers gave in its annual return to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 March 2025, plus its register entry. These are the charity's own disclosures, not part of the Clarity Score.

How much are UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's highest-paid staff paid?

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports no employees paid more than £60,000.

The register reports headcounts in salary bands, not names. The chief executive's pay is normally disclosed in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report.

Can I claim Gift Aid, and are the trustees paid?

The register records UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration. Work out your Gift Aid

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

Registration details

Registered as a charity
Company number
04094203 (Companies House)
Also known as
UK Friends of Awis
Where it says it operates
Israel

Source: Charity Commission register and annual return data, Open Government Licence v3.0. A blank answer in the return is shown as not reported, never as “no”.

How have UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's finances changed over five years?

Income rose 5% from £357k in 2021 to £375k in 2025; spending was £545k in 2025.

£0 £200k £400k £600k £800k 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Income 2021: £357k Spending 2021: £351k Income 2022: £262k Spending 2022: £296k Income 2023: £727k Spending 2023: £502k Cause spend 2023: £316k Income 2024: £763k Spending 2024: £780k Cause spend 2024: £515k Income 2025: £375k Spending 2025: £545k
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UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers income and spending by accounts year
Year Income Spending Charitable activities
2025 £375k £545k Not disclosed
2024 £763k £780k £515k
2023 £727k £502k £316k
2022 £262k £296k Not disclosed
2021 £357k £351k Not disclosed

Cause spend is plotted only when the filing discloses a split · Source: Charity Commission filings

How does UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers compare?

The share of each group scoring at or below UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers, including tied scores. A group matched on cause, income band and accounts year appears when at least ten records qualify. Broader groups below may mix reporting periods and operating models. Groups include this charity; percentiles measure our financial rating, not impact.

Income band (£100k–£500k) 3rdpercentile

Scores at or above 3% of 1,002 charities in its income band · 27/100 vs 52 peer average.

Armed forces charities 2ndpercentile

Scores at or above 2% of 82 charities in this cause · 27/100 vs 72 peer average.

Where UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers sits

The causes this charity is classified under, and other charities working nearby.

Evidence and interpretation

What the evidence says about UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers

In 2025, reported income was £374,934 and expenditure was £544,924. Expenditure exceeded income by £169,990. This annual balance is not the charity’s available cash or unrestricted reserves.

More financial context

Income fell 50.9% compared with 2024. Read the accounts notes for restricted grants, legacies and one-off receipts before treating the movement as a trend.

A separate charitable-activities spending figure is not available for this year in our dataset. We cannot calculate an annual programme-spending share from these fields.

Calculated from our dated accounts dataset, refreshed 2026-09-06. This is not an audit or a manual review of every filing. Original register and accounts · How calculations work.

Find the right support

Who it supports and how to access its work

Reported beneficiaries: Children/young People; People With Disabilities; People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin.

How it works: Makes Grants To Individuals; Makes Grants To Organisations; Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space.

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Classifications supplied to the register; extract 2026-10-04. Register contact and activity details · Website listed for this charity

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Results and impact evidence

We have not added a source-checked programme outcome for this charity. That is a gap in this profile, not evidence that the charity has no impact. Its annual report may contain results that have not been assessed here.

Reported grants to institutions: £497,316 (2024-03-31). This is spending reported in the annual return, not a measure of beneficiary outcomes or an open grant opportunity. It may already be included in charitable expenditure. Check the source accounts.

What these results can tell you

Counts of services delivered describe activity. They do not by themselves establish lasting change, what would have happened without the programme, or cost-effectiveness. Results with different definitions, populations or years should not be ranked against each other.

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What is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's Beacon report?

Detailed accountability and finance metrics from UK regulator filings — structured for transparency in our four-beacon report.

Accountability & Transparency

Baseline trust from filing discipline, board oversight, and declared governance policies.

50/100

Accountability & Transparency metrics for UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers
Metric Score Value
Filing history (5 years)

No recorded lateness in available history = 15 pts · one late filing = 5 pts · two or more or unknown status = 0 pts. Missing data is not proof of late filing.

33% 5/15 pts
Trustee oversight

Three or more trustees on the register = 15 pts, scaled down for fewer (governance red flag below three).

100% 4 trustees · 15/15 pts
Declared policies

Safeguarding (4) · conflict of interest (3) · volunteer management (3) — from Charity Commission annual return.

0% 0/10 pts

Financial Health

Stability and solvency — reserves, revenue trend, and debt from Charity Commission accounts.

0/100

Financial Health metrics for UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers
Metric Score Value
Reserves (months of expenditure)

3–24 months = full marks, tapering on both sides · 0 months or 4+ years = 0 pts. Reserves are not necessarily cash; needs vary by operating model.

0% Not stated · 0/15 pts
Income stability / growth

+20% or more over the window = 10 pts · flat = 5 pts · −20% or worse = 0 pts, scaled between.

0% 0/10 pts · 3-year average
Liabilities to assets

0% liabilities-to-assets = 5 pts, scaling down to 0 pts at 60%+ debt.

0% Not stated · 0/5 pts

Financial Efficiency

How efficiently funds reach the cause — program spend and fundraising cost ratios.

35/100

Financial Efficiency metrics for UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers
Metric Score Value
Program expense ratio

90%+ on charitable activities = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 50% or below.

40% 64% · 4/10 pts (2-year average)
Fundraising efficiency

≤10p to raise £1 = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 40p or above (fundraising cost ÷ income).

30% 30p per £1 income · 3/10 pts (2-year average, disclosed years)

Community Support

Grassroots backing from Charity Commission workforce data — volunteers vs paid staff.

0/100

Community Support metrics for UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers
Metric Score Value
Volunteer-to-staff ratio

Volunteers at 2x staff or more = full marks · no volunteers = 0 pts, scaled between.

0% Not reported · 0/10 pts

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What trust indicators does UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers have?

Pulled from the Charity Commission register — filing behaviour, board size, and workforce where reported.

  • Accounts filed on time

    Filing status: late

  • Trustee board size (3–12)

    4 trustees on the Charity Commission register

Fundraising Regulator

Status not yet checked

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Official register

Reg 1084272

Full trustee list, accounts, and regulatory history on the Charity Commission.

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Trustees & officers

  • Joshua Swidler since 2016
  • Colonel Richard Kemp since 2018
  • Miguel Gerado Abadi since 2025
  • Benny Shachor since 2025

How reliable is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's data?

Source
Charity Commission (England & Wales)
Accounts year
2025
Filing date
Data refreshed

Medium confidence — some data missing or late

Scores reflect the accounts in our dated data extract. The live register may contain newer filings. Clarity Score measures how clearly the charity accounts for money in those filings — not programme impact.

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Financial source extract: 2026-09-06. Organisation identifier: 3976196. Method version: 1.1. View method changes.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Open Government Licence v3.0 .

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  2. 2. Read the accounts in context

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How we score charities +

The Clarity Score is a 100-point rating from UK regulator filings (Charity Commission for England and Wales, OSCR and CCNI). Four pillars — Accountability & Transparency (40), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10) — each scored on a continuous scale, not pass/fail cutoffs. A statutory inquiry sets the score to 0 automatically.

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Accountability & Transparency

Scored from filings

40 points — filing history (15), trustee oversight (15, scaling up to a board of three or more), declared policies (10).

Financial Health

Scored from filings

30 points — reserves (15, full marks 3–24 months, tapering on both sides), income stability (10), liabilities to assets (5, scaling down as debt rises).

Financial Efficiency

Scored from filings

20 points — program expense ratio and fundraising cost, each on a graduated scale (not a single cutoff). Kept at 20% of the total: financial-ratio scoring alone is not a reliable effectiveness signal (see "why not just an overhead ratio?" below).

Community Support

Scored from filings

10 points — volunteer-to-staff ratio from Charity Commission workforce data, scaling continuously up to a 2:1 ratio.

Overall score

Sum of all pillar points. Display stars use the same bands as the labels: 90–100 → 5★ Exceptional; 75–89 → 4★ Good; 60–74 → 3★ Needs improvement; 1–59 → 2★ Poor; 0 → not rated.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.

Is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers a good charity? +

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers scores 27 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 64% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.

Is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers a legitimate charity? +

The register data used for this profile lists UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers as a registered charity (charity number 1084272). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1084272&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.

What is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's charity number? +

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's charity number is 1084272. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.

What is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's charity rating? +

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers scores 27 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.

Does UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers have reviews and complaints? +

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (3 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; high fundraising costs; sharp income decline). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

How much of my donation reaches UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers? +

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 64% of UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's total spending went to charitable activities (2-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.

What are UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's overheads? +

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 36% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 38% of expenditure (2023–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers. UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.

How much income does UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers receive? +

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers reported £375k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.

Are UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's accounts up to date? +

Filing status: late (last filing 2026-01-26). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Where is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers based? +

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's registered contact address is in London (EC3M 6BL). It tells the regulator it operates in Israel, with a focus on armed forces.

How much is UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's chief executive paid? +

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.

Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers? +

The register records UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.

Are UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's trustees paid? +

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

When was UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers registered as a charity? +

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers was entered on the register on 28 December 2000. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04094203).

How does CharityCompare score UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers? +

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.

How often is this page updated? +

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.