The Arieh Handler Scholarship Fund

Analysis

The Arieh Handler Scholarship Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and amateur sport, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Arieh Handler Scholarship Fund reported income of £20k and spending of £47k, spending 233% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £40k to £20k (-49%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2025, when income rose by 138%. Over the whole period it spent 176% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Arieh Handler Scholarship Fund sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Religious Settlements (£20k), Rosalie Inskip Music Trust (£20k) and Keystone Escape Youth Centre (£20k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.