TIKVA UK

Registered charity 1151993 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Tikva's core mission is to care for the homeless, abandoned and abused Jewish children of Ukraine and neighbouring regions of the former Soviet Union. Tikva provides support to the growing Jewish community of Odessa.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE INDIGENT CHAILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UKRAINE AND IN PARTICULAR TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME IN ODESSA,UKRAINE,WHICH CARES FOR HOMELESS,ABANDONED AND/OR ABUSED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF ODESSA,UKRAINE BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH SUPPORT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £117,822 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds decreasing from £368,907 to £251,085. The trustees consider the reserves position to be sound and above their stated policy target of £100,000. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Royce Peeling Green Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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 08323156

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

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.

• DENTON, Richard Mark — director, appointed 12/02/2026on trustee list
• BARNETT, Marius Lance Morris — director, appointed 28/06/2021on trustee list
• MOSHAL, Anthony Bernard, Dr — director, appointed 31/07/2014on trustee list
• BLOOM, Adam Simon — director, appointed 07/12/2012on trustee list
• KRUSKAL, Refael — director, appointed 07/12/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADAM BLOOM
• Dr Anthony Bernard Moshal
• Marius Lance Morris Barnett
• REFAEL KRUSKAL · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD DENTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Romania · Russia · Throughout London · Ukraine · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 TIKVA.

• TIKVA income £168k
• CLUB TIKVA income £54k
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• TZIVOS HASHEM UK income £555k
• YAD TOIVA (THE KIND HAND) TRUST income £235k
• THE TIKVAH TRUST income £196k

Side by side with its peers

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