COMET CHARITIES LTD

Registered charity 1097871 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PARDES HOUSE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Collects donations and then funds the activities of Orthodox Jewish schools

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

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: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £(10,842), representing a deficit. The trustees' report notes that the charity does not seek to maintain specific reserves other than to ensure it can continue its activities, and the auditor confirmed the going concern basis is appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04323368

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.

• JOSEPH, Benedict Chayim — director, appointed 23/07/2019on trustee list
• WOLF, Leon — director, appointed 23/07/2019on trustee list
• LISSER, Michael — director, appointed 15/11/2001on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

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: 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 — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benedict Chayim Joseph · trustee of 5 other charities
• Leon Wolf · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL LISSER · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Benedict Chayim Joseph — trustee here and at COMET CHARITIES LTD
• Benedict Chayim Joseph — trustee here and at NORTH LONDON WELFARE AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
• Leon Wolf — trustee here and at COMET CHARITIES LTD
• MICHAEL LISSER — trustee here and at ASATE LTD
• MICHAEL LISSER — trustee here and at COMET CHARITIES LTD

Known funders

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

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 KOLLEL HACHODOSH.

• KOLLEL HACHODOSH income £121k
• COMETVILLE LIMITED income £204k
• MORESHET HATORAH LTD income £5.6m
• RAYONHILLS income £84k
• YMC CHARITY income £47k
• KOLEISS ZEDOKOH LIMITED income £90k

Side by side with its peers

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