LEARN ENGLISH AT HOME

Registered charity 1153425 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEARN-ENGLISH AT HOME

LEAH works with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants who are socially isolated due to their lack of English language. Our volunteer-led service provides one to one English language tuition face to face or online; small group classes in the community or online; trips and social activities; health and well being support; and education, employment and volunteering progression support

Objects

The objects of the CIO are, for the public benefit:to advance the education and integration of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants who do not speak English as a first language, improving their access to support services and future education, employment and volunteering opportunities; andto further such other charitable purposes according to the law of England and Wales as the trustees see fit.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £53,629 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the prior year. Total reserves increased to £357,072, although the fully unrestricted reserve stands at £83,728, which the trustees note represents only two months of budgeted expenditure against a policy target of five months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Learn English At Home (LEAH) (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 6.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sharon Landachair
• Alan Birch
• Barbara Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Easton
• Ruth Close · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shuang Rees
• Susan Thomas

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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

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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 HAREHILLS ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROJECT TO BE KNOWN AS H.E.L.P..

• HAREHILLS ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROJECT TO BE KNOWN AS H.E.L.P. income £42k
• PREMIER LEARNING income £85k
• The English Language Centre income £6.0m
• ANDALUCIA LEARNING CENTRE income £60k
• RICHMOND EAL FRIENDSHIP GROUP CENTRE LTD income £49k
• Integration Support income £345k

Side by side with its peers

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