SIDE BY SIDE (CHILDREN) LIMITED

Registered charity 1135723 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are committed to providing outstanding education for children with special needs. Our aim is that each child will leave our school to become valued and respected for their own individual talents, personalities and abilities. It is our aim that the atmosphere and work of our school reflects the special qualities of each of our children.

Objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ESTABLISHING MAINTAINING AND MANAGING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY A SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH LEARNING AND SPECIAL NEEDS(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS AS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THEPUBLIC AND ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit of £388,211, having made a loss of £158,801. The trustees have adopted a reserves recovery strategy targeting £500,000 by 2032, noting that the previous policy of maintaining three to six months' operating expenditure was not a realistic short-term target. Despite the deficit, the auditor confirmed the use of the going concern basis is appropriate, citing trustee confidence in raising sufficient funds through fundraising and Local Authority support.

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.

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.

• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06962081
• Trading subsidiary: SIDE BY SIDE SCHOOL LTD Companies House 08865604

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jacob Sorotzkin — Chair (source)
• Gerald Lebrett — Headteacher (source)
• Mrs T Junger — SENCO Manager (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• W Lanyon (Estate of Ann Richardson) — “Thanks To Our Funders: W Lanyon (Estate of Ann Richardson)” (source page)
• Schreiber family (SF Foundation) — “Schreiber family (SF Foundation)” (source page)
• The Esfandi Charitable Foundation — “Our New Building was made possible through the generous support of: The Esfandi Charitable Foundation” (source page)
• Stockwell / Cliffe Charitable Trust — “Made possible with the support of: Stockwell / Cliffe Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Exilarch's Foundation — “Major Capital Project Donors and Long-Time Supporters: The Exilarch's Foundation” (source page)
• The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust — “The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust” (source page)

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.

• MANNES, Gershon — director, appointed 27/05/2026on trustee list
• MARGULIES, Charles Mark — director, appointed 26/07/2020on trustee list
• SOROTZKIN, Jacob — director, appointed 26/07/2020on trustee list
• WEISS, Hannah Zelda — director, appointed 17/12/2010on trustee list
• SINITSKY, Sydney Samuel — director, appointed 09/09/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £2.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2026)

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 (90% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES MARK MARGULIES · trustee of 3 other charities
• Gershon Mannes · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hannah Zelda Weiss · trustee of 4 other charities
• Jacob Sorotzkin · trustee of 3 other charities
• Sydney Samuel Sinitsky · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: Hackney · Haringey

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.

• Hannah Zelda Weiss — trustee here and at KEREN ASSOCIATION LIMITED

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

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 SIDE BY SIDE SCHOOL LTD.

• SIDE BY SIDE SCHOOL LTD income £575k
• SPECIAL PLAY AND LEISURE AFTER SCHOOL HOURS income £163k
• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k
• ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN income £199k
• ONE TO ONE CHILDREN'S FUND income £2.0m
• BETHANY SCHOOL income £8.8m

Side by side with its peers

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