SPECIAL SPIRITS

Registered charity 1194376 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

As described in the charity objects

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES IN ACCORDANCE WITH JEWISH VALUES, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OR DISADVANTAGED SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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

Causes: Disability · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Salford, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £51,470 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £494,334 to £442,864. Although the charity held net current liabilities of £21,020, the trustees confirmed that going concern is not an issue because creditors have agreed not to call in loans. The charity's unrestricted reserves were £442,864, which the trustees considered an acceptable level given the nature of revenue receipts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~14.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benjamin Black · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHAYA EINHORN
• Mordechei Zvi Kaufman
• REBECCA HALPERN
• ZEV BRODIE · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SYMPATHETIC TRUST.

• THE SYMPATHETIC TRUST income £877k
• H M SASSOON CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k
• NISSIM income £38k
• LITTLE GIVING income £650k
• LIMOGES CHARITABLE TRUST income £69k
• THE PATRICIA BEECHAM CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £25k

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