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Registered charity 1143986 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity provides out-of-school hours activities for children with disabilities in the London Boroughs of Hackney and Haringey. The Charity's aims are to provide social, leisure and developmental benefits to children and young people with disabilities and provide support and respite to their families.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £17,230 and unrestricted reserves of £376,848. Per the trustees' report, these free reserves cover running costs for approximately 3 months, meeting the lower end of their stated policy target. The charity generated total income of £1,594,053, largely supported by charitable activities and other trading activities from its subsidiary.

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

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rabbi Hager — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Mrs Esther Hoffman — Director (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (50% 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: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENZION HOFFSTATTER
• Judah Hager
• Liebel Schlesinger · trustee of 1 other charity
• MORDECHAI FRIESEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• RACHEL MARGULIES · trustee of 2 other charities
• RUTH ERBLICH · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Barnet · Gateshead · Hackney · Haringey · Manchester City

Income and spending

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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 KIDS CARE LONDON.

• KIDS CARE LONDON income £780k
• KEF KIDS income £1.2m
• AIMING HIGH LONDON income £130k
• STEPS CLUB FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £111k
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY income £1.2m
• BEDE HOUSE ASSOCIATION income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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