THE GESHER TRUST

Registered charity 1160465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Gesher is a unique independent all through school for children aged 4 to 16. We opened in September 2017 and provide a specialist learning environment for children with special educational needs. These include language, communication and social pragmatic difficulties and those associated with ADHD and specific learning difficulties. We have a specialism in autism spectrum challenges.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('THE OBJECTS') ARE TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING, CARRYING ON, MANAGING AND DEVELOPING A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS PROVIDING EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS FOLLOWING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE JEWISH FAITH. (4.1 OF GOVERNING DOCUMENT)IN CASE OF DISPUTE, REFERENCE TO "THE PRINCIPLES OF THE JEWISH FAITH" IS A REFERENCE TO THOSE PRINCIPLES AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE. (4.2 OF GOVERNING DOCUMENT).

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £690,677 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £359,025. The trustees note that reserves are below their policy target of three months' expenditure due to capital commitments, but confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to meet liabilities for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09223197

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.

• DANIELS, Steven Michael — director, appointed 16/04/2024on trustee list
• PORTNOI, Lee Richard Joseph — director, appointed 22/07/2020on trustee list
• KUTNER, Michael David — director, appointed 04/01/2018on trustee list
• ZETTER, Howard Keith — director, appointed 04/01/2018on trustee list
• DURBAN, Alison Luise — director, appointed 17/09/2014on trustee list
• SULTMAN, Sarah Lucy — director, appointed 17/09/2014on trustee list
• KUTNER, Michael David — secretary, appointed 04/01/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £4.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON LUISE DURBAN
• HOWARD ZETTER
• LEE RICHARD JOSEPH PORTNOI · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Kutner
• SARAH SULTMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Michael Daniels · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire · Throughout London

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.

• Steven Michael Daniels — trustee here and at Coller Family Foundation

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

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 GESHER.

• GESHER income £338k
• GISSING CHILDREN'S CENTRE - A COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £190k
• BIRTENSHAW MERSEYSIDE income £5.8m
• EXETER SCHOOL income £1.6m
• SCEPTRE EDUCATION income £3.3m
• GOSFIELD SCHOOL LIMITED income £6.0m

Side by side with its peers

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