KEF KIDS

Registered charity 1176298 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEF

The charity provides out-of-school hours activities for children with disabilities, primarily from the Jewish communities in the London Borough of Barnet, but also to Jewish children in Brent and Hackney and other areas in England. The charity's aims are to provide social, leisure and developmental benefits to children with disabilities and support and respite to their families.

Objects

1)TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND ORGANISING OF ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEM BEING DISADVANTAGED DUE TO THEIR DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;AND2) TO SUPPORT SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES DEEM MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DEEM APPROPRIATE.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £85,787 for the year ended 31 January 2026, with total income of £1,441,194 and expenditure of £1,355,407. Free reserves stood at £366,194, representing 3.2 months of cover, which the trustees state brings the charity within its policy range of three to six months of expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate and identified no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "within" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10799455

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — KEF KIDS (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• WEISZ, Leah Susie — director, appointed 04/02/2026on trustee list
• FINE, Daniel Boruch — director, appointed 02/06/2017on trustee list
• GROSZMAN, Bernard — director, appointed 02/06/2017on trustee list
• HALPERN, Samuel Jacob — director, appointed 02/06/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bernard Groszmanchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• DANIEL BORUCH FINE · trustee of 1 other charity
• SAMUEL JACOB HALPERN · trustee of 3 other charities
• susie leah weisz

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

Operates in: Barnet · Brent · 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.

• SAMUEL JACOB HALPERN — trustee here and at CHARITWORTH LIMITED

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 KIDS.

• KIDS income £9.4m
• SPECIAL NEEDS ADVISORY AND ACTIVITIES PROJECT income £422k
• ACTION AROUND BETHLEHEM CHILDREN WITH DISABILITY income £255k
• GET KIDS GOING income £1.8m
• STEP BY STEP LONDON income £1.6m
• KEREN income £303k

Side by side with its peers

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