CITY ESCAPE

Registered charity 1069707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BETH JACOB CAMP, HOLIDAY RELIEF, HOLIDAY RELIEF BETH JACOB CAMP

We aim to improve the lives and opportunities of inner city children and young people who come from financially or socially disadvantaged backgrounds. Our two week summer programme with educational, leisure and health related activities enhances the children's social development and improves their confidence and self-esteem, providing them with the tools to enrich their lives and their future.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR FOR JEWISH MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF HOLIDAYS AT RESIDENTIAL SUMMER CAMPS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ESPECIALLY THOSE RESIDENT IN INNER CITIES SO AS TO ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION AND TO ASSIST THEM TO GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED, BY RELIEVING POVERTY, BY PROVIDING RESPITE CARE AND OTHER ASSISTANCE FOR THOSE IN NEED AND BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO MAY USE THEM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of (21,189.16) for the year ended 31 January 2025, resulting in total funds carried forward of 27,876.94. The trustees note that the cost-of-living crisis has reduced income levels and increased running expenses, making programme delivery more challenging. They are working towards building free reserves of at least three months' operating costs to protect services against funding uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Judith Reifer
• MRS ROSENTHAL
• RACHEL JUST · trustee of 1 other charity
• YAFFA MANDEL

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

Operates in: Hackney · Haringey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF ESCAPE FOUNDATION.

• CITY OF ESCAPE FOUNDATION income £156k
• ESCAPE COMMUNITY ART IN ACTION income £309k
• ESCAPE2MAKE income £414k
• HIGHLIGHTS income £31k
• ESCAPE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP income £390k
• THE EXODUS PROJECT income £305k

Side by side with its peers

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