THE AKIVA SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1118164 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Foundation body of akiva school

Objects

3.1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, PRIMARILY OF JEWISH CHILDREN, BY PROMOTING, PROVIDING, SUPPORTING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL, RECREATIONAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE FACILITIES AT AKIVA SCHOOL AND WHICH MAY INCLUDE ACTING AS THE FOUNDATION BODY, SPONSOR OR OTHER BODY WITH OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR, OR POWER TO APPOINT GOVERNORS TO, AKIVA SCHOOL

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE BARNET, FINCHLEY

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 · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £130,583 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £627,528. The Trustees consider these unrestricted reserves to be sufficient to ensure the Foundation can achieve its objectives for the foreseeable future, despite noting pressures on education budgets and family finances.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILIP SIMMONSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOSIE KINCHIN
• Jon Papier
• Jonathan Arthur Epstein
• Susan Stone · trustee of 1 other charity
• lucy Weiner · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION.

• THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION income £302k
• THE AKHTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £184k
• AL-NOOR FOUNDATION LIMITED income £585k
• FRIENDS OF BNEI AKIVA (BACHAD) income £142k
• BEIS YAAKOV PRIMARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £1.9m
• THE INDEPENDENT JEWISH DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £977k

Side by side with its peers

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