NORWOOD RAVENSWOOD

Registered charity 1059050 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORWOOD

Norwood supports vulnerable children and their families, and young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism. Norwood transforms lives to enable thousands of people from diverse and mixed backgrounds, grow, learn and reach their full potential. Jewish communal values are at the heart of Norwood?s services and depth of Norwood?s work in the community is truly unique.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN, YOUNGPEOPLE AND ADULTS DRAWN PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, WHO ARE INNEED BY REASON OF DISABILITY, ABUSE, NEGLECT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, THROUGHPROVIDING OR SECURING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, SUPPORT, CARE,TREATMENT, SUBSTITUTE FAMILY CARE, ADOPTION SERVICES, ACCOMMODATION AND/OR OTHER ASSISTANCEOF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Harrow, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group made an operating surplus of £0.7m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £34.4m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £10.7m, which is above the stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure (£8.5m). The charity reports no material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Norwood – Ravenswood Village rdg.today · 22/12/2022
• Norwood – Ravenswood Village wokingham.today · 22/12/2022

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: NORWOOD SCHOOLS LTD. Companies House 00516901
• Trading subsidiary: THE HOPE CHARITY Companies House 03171884
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03263519

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Norwood (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RAPHAELY, Andrew David — director, appointed 29/09/2026not on trustee list
• DAVIS, Tessa Rachael, Dr — director, appointed 29/09/2026not on trustee list
• STRELITZ, Jason Pierre Andre — director, appointed 15/12/2025on trustee list
• HATTER, Richard Mark — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• MARCUS, Tania — director, appointed 17/02/2025on trustee list
• SULTMAN, Sarah Lucy — director, appointed 31/10/2024on trustee list
• ABEL, Allyson Renee — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• WEBBER, Miles Jason — director, appointed 15/08/2023on trustee list
• FREEMAN, Benjamin Elliot — director, appointed 19/05/2021on trustee list
• ISAACS, Timothy Keith — director, appointed 21/10/2020on trustee list
• HARRIS, Justine Helen — director, appointed 21/04/2020on trustee list
• DAVIS-STOLLAR, Rachael Lee — director, appointed 31/01/2020on trustee list
• CHIJIOKE, Obinna Forster — secretary, appointed 31/03/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Norwood Ravenswood — Registered, 28 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 01/09/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Miles Jason Webberchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Allyson Renee Abel
• Andrew Raphaely · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benjamin Elliot Freeman · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Tessa Rachael Davis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elliot David Morris
• Jason Pierre Andre Strelitz
• Justine Helen Harris
• Rachael Lee Davis-Stollar
• Richard Mark Hatter
• Sarah Lucy Sultman
• Tania Marcus
• Timothy Keith Isaacs · trustee of 2 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORWOOD SCHOOLS LTD.

• NORWOOD SCHOOLS LTD income £32.7m
• THE CHARNWOOD TRUST income £961k
• NORTHWOOD HOUSE CHARITABLE TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £719k
• THE GARWOOD FOUNDATION income £4.2m
• NORTHWOOD CHAPEL income £76k
• BARNWOOD TRUST income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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