DALAID

Registered charity 1064655 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Relief of Poverty & Advancement of Jewish Education.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO JEWISH INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL 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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Latest income
£36k
Latest spending
£90k
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £53,530 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to charitable activity expenditures of £89,853 against incoming resources of £36,323. Per the trustees' report, the charity has not carried out any activities during the year due to an ongoing Charity Commission statutory inquiry into potential misconduct. Despite the deficit, unrestricted funds carried forward remain substantial at £2,171,255, supported by significant cash reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Governance: The charity is the subject of a statutory inquiry by the Charity Commission to investigate potential misconduct and mismanagement.
“The charity has not been able to carry out any activities in pursuance of its objects during the financial year because it is the subject of a statutory inquiry to investigate potential misconduct and mismanagement in its administration.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Charity Commission inquiry

The Charity Commission opened a statutory inquiry into Dalaid on 23 June 2023 to investigate potential misconduct or mismanagement in the charity's administration and risks to its property. The report states that the regulator is concerned about governance, compliance with legal duties, and the oversight of grants, but does not detail a final outcome or conclusion.
Per the Commission’s published report. Summary is automated; the official report is authoritative.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 16/07/2024, 167 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Total income
£667k
Total spending
£961k
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
0

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income.

Operates in: Israel · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£36k£90k
31/03/2024£6k£24k
31/03/2023£667k£961k
31/03/2022£925k£840k
31/03/2021£994k£989k

Common questions

Is DALAID financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £53,530 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to charitable activity expenditures of £89,853 against incoming resources of £36,323. Per the trustees' report, the charity has not carried out any activities during the year due to an ongoing Charity Commission statutory inquiry into potential misconduct. Despite the deficit, unrestricted funds carried forward remain substantial at £2,171,255, supported by significant cash reserves. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds DALAID?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DALAID as a grant recipient include THE DORFMAN FOUNDATION, PRISM THE GIFT FUND, THE CAROLE AND GEOFFREY LAWSON FOUNDATION, THE IAN & NATALIE LIVINGSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST, WALTERS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE DORFMAN FOUNDATIONFY2022£667k
THE IAN & NATALIE LIVINGSTONE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023Unverified read£497k
PRISM THE GIFT FUNDFY2021£155kGrants to institutions/organisations
THE CAROLE AND GEOFFREY LAWSON FOUNDATIONFY2022£75k
THE CAROLE AND GEOFFREY LAWSON FOUNDATIONFY2023£51k
THE CAROLE AND GEOFFREY LAWSON FOUNDATIONFY2021£50k
THE IAN & NATALIE LIVINGSTONE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2021£50kfor the purpose of relief of poverty and advancement of Jewish education.
THE IAN & NATALIE LIVINGSTONE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£50krelief of poverty and advancement of Jewish education
WALTERS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£30k
WALTERS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2022£25k
THE DORFMAN FOUNDATIONFY2021£15kGeneral charitable purpose donations
THE DORFMAN FOUNDATIONFY2023£6k
THE SIR JOHN RITBLAT FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2022£5k
THE PHILLIPS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2021£4k

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.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YAD ELIEZER TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
DALAID£36k—0unclear—no doubt
YAD ELIEZER TRUST FY2026£74k—0unclear—no doubt
JLE FY2025£3.2m——above—noted
CHABAD LUBAVITCH UK FY2025£6.5m——above—no doubt
BETH HAMEDRASH D'NITRA FY2025£39k—0below—noted
HOUSE OF JUDAH DAGENHAM IN FELLOWSHIP WITH ASSEMBLIES OF GOD FY2025£55k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.