LANGDON COLLEGE

Registered charity 1088936 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q66139286 · also known as LANGDON, LANGDON LEARNING

Providing post 16 education to school leavers with special educational needs. In particular to Jewish children and young people

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS; ANDTHE RELIEF OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OR MENTAL ILLNESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATED DIFFICULTIES BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND OTHER SERVICES AND THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT TO THEIR FAMILIES;(SAVE FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL AND ANCILLARY TO THOSE OBJECTS), NO OTHER PURPOSES. THE CHARITY SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION

Area of benefit: GREATER MANCHESTER

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£1.7m
Latest spending
£1.9m
Registered
2001
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £123,622 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total reserves falling sharply to £1,981 from £125,603 the previous year. The trustees and auditors confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified, despite the charity operating in a challenging financial environment with reliance on Local Authority contracts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Note 11
“At the year end, the charity had a debtor of £22,720 (2024: £17,505) due from The Langdon Foundation. During the year, The Langdon Foundation charged the charity building lease rents of £1,640 (2024: £6,560) which are included in the amount stated in Note 8 above.” — page 21
“At the year end, the charity had a creditor of £18,793 (2024: nil) due to KisharonLangdon Enterprises Ltd, £nil (2024: £3,749) due to Langdon Housing and £36,362 (2024:nil) due to KisharonLangdon.” — page 21
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Note 11
“At the year end, the charity had a debtor of £22,720 (2024: £17,505) due from The Langdon Foundation. During the year, The Langdon Foundation charged the charity building lease rents of £1,640 (2024: £6,560) which are included in the amount stated in Note 8 above.” — page 21
“At the year end, the charity had a creditor of £18,793 (2024: nil) due to KisharonLangdon Enterprises Ltd, £nil (2024: £3,749) due to Langdon Housing and £36,362 (2024:nil) due to KisharonLangdon.” — page 21
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: 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.

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 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Government income: £1,515,787 — contracts £1,364,796 (20), grants £150,991 (5); 87% of the £1,735,787 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 5
  • Government income: £1,304,787 — contracts £1,194,529 (35), grants £110,258 (5); 98% of the £1,326,357 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Government income: £1,811,371 — contracts £1,686,557 (8), grants £124,814 (5); 98% of the £1,851,512 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)

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 31/12/2021 (received 15/12/2022, 45 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Langdon College — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 27/06/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£1.7m
Total spending
£1.9m
Reserves (reported)
£2k
Employees
19

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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 — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Barnet · Salford City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£1.7m£1.9m
31/08/2024£1.3m£1.5m
31/12/2023£1.9m£1.9m
31/12/2022£1.6m£1.4m
31/12/2021£1.3m£1.3m

Common questions

Is LANGDON COLLEGE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £123,622 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total reserves falling sharply to £1,981 from £125,603 the previous year. The trustees and auditors confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified, despite the charity operating in a challenging financial environment with reliance on Local Authority contracts. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Cohen Arnold.

Who funds LANGDON COLLEGE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name LANGDON COLLEGE as a grant recipient include YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATIONFY2024£470
YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATIONFY2023£470
YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATIONFY2022£150
YESHURUN HEBREW CONGREGATIONFY2022£100

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 THE LANGDON FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
LANGDON COLLEGE£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
THE LANGDON FOUNDATION FY2025£427k——unclear—no doubt
LANCING COLLEGE LIMITED FY2025£33.0m——unclear—no doubt
LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION FY2025£474k—0unclear—no doubt
JLE FY2025£3.2m——above—noted
LONDON SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY FY2025£2.8m£80,001 - £90,0004above—no doubt

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