THE LANGDON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1142742 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Langdon empowers Jewish adults with learning disabilities with the skills and opportunities to live independently in their community within a Jewish ethos.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OR MENTAL ILLNESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATED DIFFICULTIES INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT TO THEIR FAMILIES AND (SAVE FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL AND ANCILLARY TO THOSE OBJECTS), NO OTHER PURPOSES. THE CHARITY SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION.

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 · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £85,485 for the year ended 31 August 2025, a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit. However, the trustees note that income and expenditure remain finely balanced due to rising costs without comparable increases in statutory funding. The charity's unrestricted funds are almost fully invested in fixed assets, with only a small unrestricted fund balance remaining.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; 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.

• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 15/12/2022, 45 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: LANGDON COMMUNITY Companies House 04055338
• Trading subsidiary: LANGDON COLLEGE Companies House 04104466
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07621714
• Trading subsidiary: LANGDON HOUSING Companies House 07623246
• Trading subsidiary: LANGDON TRUSTEE COMPANY Companies House 08342169

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.

• HART, Victoria Naomi — director, appointed 10/08/2026on trustee list
• FROMSON, Bernard Harold — director, appointed 17/07/2026on trustee list
• MEYER, Robert Ian Simon — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• LOFTUS, Andrew David — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• GOLDBERG, Philip — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• CASTLETON, Emma Nathalie — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• LEMER, Claire — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• LERNER, Irving Marc — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• LEVY, Richard Joseph — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• DOFFMAN, Nicholas Ian — director, appointed 11/07/2018on trustee list
• DARNELL, Paul — secretary, appointed 12/02/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

20 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold); recorded price paid £2.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 4.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW DAVID LOFTUS · trustee of 4 other charities
• Bernard Harold Fromson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Claire Lemer · trustee of 3 other charities
• Emma Nathalie Castleton · trustee of 1 other charity
• IRVING MARC LERNER · trustee of 5 other charities
• Philip Goldberg · trustee of 10 other charities
• Richard Joseph Levy
• Robert Meyer · trustee of 3 other charities
• Victoria Hart · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Barnet · Bury · Harrow · Hertfordshire · Salford City

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

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 LANGDON COLLEGE.

• LANGDON COLLEGE income £1.7m
• LODDON SOCIAL ENTERPRISE LTD income £194k
• KisharonLangdon income £19.0m
• THE LOWY-DENES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £41k
• CLAPTON SUPPORT AND ADVICE income £855k
• LATATE LIMITED income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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