CAMP SIMCHA

Registered charity 1180646 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Camp Simcha exists to improve the quality of life for Jewish families affected by serious illness. It provides a variety of services to help and support these families.

Objects

TO RELIEVE JEWISH CHILDREN OF ALL AGES AND YOUNG ADULTS AFFECTED BY CANCER, LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES OR ANY CHRONIC OR SERIOUS ILLNESSES AND TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THEIR FAMILIES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £1,150,366 in 2025, driven by a successful biennial online campaign that contributed significantly to total income of £4,441,857. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3,286,550, representing approximately 11 months of forecast expenditure, which falls within the stated policy target of 6–12 months. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• 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 11478657

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Camp Simcha (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Daniel Gillis — Chief Executive (source)
• Simon Johnson — Chair (source)
• Rachely Plancey — Director-level (source)
• Melissa Sher — Director-level (source)
• Emma Shrimsley — Director-level (source)
• Jenny Meister — Director-level (source)
• Shoshana Copeland — Director-level (source)
• Leat Preston — Director-level (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.

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.

• ISAACS, Mandy Laura — director, appointed 18/03/2025on trustee list
• ABRAHAMS, Michael Guy — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
• POLLOCK, Simon Jonathan — director, appointed 19/07/2023on trustee list
• GILBERT, Arieh Alexander — director, appointed 28/03/2023on trustee list
• SCOTT, Lisa Rochelle — director, appointed 06/01/2023on trustee list
• PLANCEY, Yisroel Meir — director, appointed 01/11/2021on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Simon Harris — director, appointed 24/06/2020on trustee list
• PERSEY, Tanya Sima — director, appointed 05/03/2019on trustee list
• HERMAN, Jeremy Philip — director, appointed 23/07/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 14.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arieh Alexander Gilbert · trustee of 1 other charity
• JEREMY PHILIP HERMAN
• Lisa Rochelle Scott
• Mandy Laura Isaacs
• Michael Guy Abrahams
• Simon Harris Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Jonathan Pollock
• Tanya Persey
• Yisroel Meir Plancey

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

Operates in: 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.

• Simon Harris Johnson — trustee here and at THE BLOOM 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.

The FY2023 grant list of REUBEN FOUNDATION, which names this charity, was corrected after a reader report.

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 SIMCHA CHESED LIMITED.

• SIMCHA CHESED LIMITED income £81k
• THE SIMCHA TRUST LIMITED income £119k
• JEWISH FAMILY CENTRE LTD income £611k
• SHEMA KOLI income £35k
• REDEEMED CAMP income £132k
• YESHUAS CHAIM SYNAGOGUE income £169k

Side by side with its peers

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