HOSPITAL KOSHER MEALS SERVICE

Registered charity 1187505 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HKMS

Provision of frozen kosher meals, soups, desserts, sandwiches and breakfasts to patients in hospitals and care facilities, thus allowing them to maintain the orthodox tenets of their Jewish religion by keeping Jewish dietary laws whilst sick or convalescing.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH BY THE PROVISION OF KOSHER FOOD TO JEWISH PATIENTS IN HOSPITALS OR TO OTHER JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE SICK OR CONVALESCING.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £22,602 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £58,038. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £74,357 are currently below the stated policy target of one month's expenditure, though the trustees are making efforts to increase them. The auditor confirmed 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 Haffner Hoff Auditors Ltd. Discloses 5 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JACOB OESTREICHER · trustee of 2 other charities
• JULIAN JUDAH SCHARFER · trustee of 4 other charities
• Yisroel Meyer Emanuel
• Yitzchak Meir Sonnenberg

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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