SOCIAL SQUARE (UK)

Registered charity 1156392 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Helping disadvantaged families and the provision of facilities for recreation and leisure for those in need of such.

Objects

I. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.II. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.III. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH PROVISION BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.IV. THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD SUCH AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT THEY ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit of £791, a significant deterioration from the previous year's surplus of £8,073. Per the trustees' report, this negative position is driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income, and the charity anticipates future operations are subject to satisfactory income levels.

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 3 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 01/08/2024, 32 days after the 30/06/2024 due date); year ending 31/08/2022 (received 06/07/2023, 6 days after the 30/06/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MIREL HOPSTEINchair
• MORDECHAI FRIESEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• RESI NEUSTADT

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

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