SIDE BY SIDE SCHOOL LTD

Registered charity 1159524 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trustees are aiming to construct a purpose built building for use by the school operated by the related charity Side By Side (Children) Limited, to give them an improved environment to continue to provide the high quality education it is already providing to the local community.

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £9,566,258, with the bank loan fully repaid during the year. The trustees report that the charity has the whole-hearted support of the community and is satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate major risks. However, the going concern basis relies on the assumption of continued support from creditors.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jacob Sorotzkin — Chair (source)
• Gerald Lebrett — Headteacher (source)
• Mrs T Junger — SENCO Manager (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• W Lanyon (Estate of Ann Richardson) — “Thanks To Our Funders: W Lanyon (Estate of Ann Richardson)” (source page)
• Schreiber family (SF Foundation) — “Schreiber family (SF Foundation)” (source page)
• The Esfandi Charitable Foundation — “Our New Building was made possible through the generous support of: The Esfandi Charitable Foundation” (source page)
• Stockwell / Cliffe Charitable Trust — “Made possible with the support of: Stockwell / Cliffe Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Exilarch's Foundation — “Major Capital Project Donors and Long-Time Supporters: The Exilarch's Foundation” (source page)
• The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust — “The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (74% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Israel Moskovitz
• Jacob Schreiber
• Jacob Sorotzkin · trustee of 3 other charities
• Nathan Schreiber
• Shimon David Cohen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hackney · Haringey

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Jacob Sorotzkin — trustee here and at GIVE US A CHANCE

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 SIDE BY SIDE (CHILDREN) LIMITED.

• SIDE BY SIDE (CHILDREN) LIMITED income £4.4m
• DEESIDE HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.8m
• HILLSIDE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £213k
• BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.3m
• TALMUD TORAH TIFERES SHLOME TRUST income £806k
• BRAMBLETYE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £6.3m

Side by side with its peers

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