CHILDREN AHEAD LTD

Registered charity 1138140 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIGHTING THE WAY

Children Ahead's mission is to ensure that children struggling with learning and emotional difficulties have the opportunities, help and resources to achieve their full potential.To achieve this, the Charity offers children and young people a full range of therapeutic interventions, alongside training and support for their parents and schools.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £20,340 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total turnover increasing to £1,450,030. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves rose to £204,187, which aligns with their policy target of holding at least three months of unrestricted operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Under £60,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• People of the Palace: Lighting the Way with Victorian Lamps alexandrapalace.com · 22/12/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07303421

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.

• BRAYER, Yitzchok Meir — director, appointed 10/03/2026on trustee list
• RAND, Hindy — director, appointed 09/06/2025on trustee list
• KAHAN, Israel — director, appointed 21/05/2013on trustee list
• SPITZER, Samuel — director, appointed 11/03/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SAMUEL SPITZERchair
• Hindy Rand
• ISRAEL KAHAN · trustee of 4 other charities
• Yitzchok Brayer

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AllChild.

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• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
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• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• UP - UNLOCKING POTENTIAL income £3.2m
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Side by side with its peers

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