NOA GIRLS

Registered charity 1130834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GIRLS ACTION PROJECTS, NOA

The charity supports and works one to one with young girls at risk creating a care plan for each of them which includes a key worker, mentor and, in many cases, therapy.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: TO HELP ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR THE ORTHODOX JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGH (A) PRACTICAL, THERAPEUTIC AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND OTHER ACTIVITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, RESILIENT AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND (B) INCREASING KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF EMOTIONAL WELLBEING.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £2,012,125 against total expenditure of £1,905,260, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds £575,818 in unrestricted funds, which the trustees consider adequate for planned activities. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 4 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Noa (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 9.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Harrischair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cecily Julia Engle
• Dr Talia Alexandra Ezra
• Elaine Aarons · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Jane Weider
• Feige Hager
• Jacqueline Benjamin
• Karen Esther Midgen
• Nechama Rosenberg
• SHARON LUCY GREEN

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

Operates in: Barnet · Hackney · Haringey · Harrow · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NOAH'S ARK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY.

• NOAH'S ARK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY income £2.3m
• THE NEW GIRLS SCHOOL income £1.9m
• NOAM EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £746k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• THE GIRLS' NETWORK income £1.3m
• ONE NEWHAM income £163k

Side by side with its peers

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