THE KEMACH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1164563 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The goal of The Kemach Foundation is to increase the levels of Haredim in the Israeli workforce. Its objectives are achieved by individually addressing financial and academic challenges and facilitating job placement to confront critical issues of social mobility, equal access to higher education and workforce participation.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG THOSE PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN ISRAEL AND/OR ELSEWHERE BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT AND GENERALLYTHE ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION THROUGH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND HIGHER ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL AND/OR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £12,255 to £11,565 due to a net expenditure of £690. The charity reported total income of £748,630 and charitable expenditure of £749,320, resulting in a deficit for the year. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for future operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• משפחת יוסף ספרא — “תכנית מלגות לסטודנטים חרדים הלומדים להכשרה מקצועית בשיתוף משפחת יוסף ספרא” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Leo Noechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• MIGUEL GERADO ABADI
• SIMON KANTER · trustee of 3 other charities
• SIR MICHAEL LAWRENCE DAVIS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Israel · Throughout England And Wales

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.

• Leo Noe — trustee here and at RACHEL CHARITABLE TRUST
• SIMON KANTER — trustee here and at RACHEL CHARITABLE TRUST

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.

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 GEMACH LTD.

• GEMACH LTD income £7.1m
• THE KHAYAMI FOUNDATION income £25k
• KEHAL CHAREDIM TRUST income £427k
• GAN MENACHEM HENDON LIMITED income £841k
• THE MEREPHDI FOUNDATION income £232k
• MIFAL HACHESED VEHATZEDOKOH income £5.4m

Side by side with its peers

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