KisharonLangdon

Registered charity 271519 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6416559 · Wikipedia · also known as KISHARON, KISHARON LIMITED

The principal object of the charity is to provide excellence in education, vocational training, care and support for children and adults with learning disabilities, within a traditional Jewish environment. The aim is to make provision for life so as to promote the potential of the individual using support and therapies in order that they live as independently as possible within the community.

Objects

TO FURTHER THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS OF ANY AGE WHO ARE SUFFERING LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND WHO ARE RECOGNISED AS MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH BY THE COURT OF THE CHIEF RABBI BETH DIN LONDON (OR ANY OTHER SUCH AUTHORITY AS SPECIFIED BY THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME) AND WHO ACCEPT THE ETHOS DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME (OR WHOSE PARENTS GUARDIANS AND OR FAMILY ACCEPT SUCH ETHOS) AND WHOSE HOME AND OR BACKGROUND REFLECTS SUCH ETHOS ('BENEFICIARIES') IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £2,765,071, with a stated policy target of maintaining a minimum of two months' payroll expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £41,537 for the year, noting that cashflow pressure resulted from delays in fundraising and a funding gap between statutory payments and actual service costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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 01259900
• Trading subsidiary: KISHARONLANGDON ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 07305383

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Franklin — Chief Executive (source)
• Michelle Janes — Chief Transformation Officer (source)
• Helen Sowa — Director of Operations (source)
• Paul Darnell — Director of Corporate Services (source)
• Dr Emily Haddock — Director of Education (source)
• Judith Flacks-Leigh — Director of Marketing & Communications (source)
• Emma Nagli — Director of Fundraising (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.

• HART, Victoria Naomi — director, appointed 10/08/2026on trustee list
• FROMSON, Bernard Harold — director, appointed 17/07/2026on trustee list
• MEYER, Robert Ian Simon — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• DOFFMAN, Nicholas Ian — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• LEMER, Claire — director, appointed 15/02/2021on trustee list
• LEVY, Richard — director, appointed 25/03/2014on trustee list
• LOFTUS, Andrew David — director, appointed 25/03/2014on trustee list
• CASTLETON, Emma Nathalie — director, appointed 25/03/2014on trustee list
• LERNER, Irving Marc — director, appointed 17/05/2011on trustee list
• GOLDBERG, Philip — director, appointed 17/07/2002on trustee list
• DARNELL, Paul — secretary, appointed 25/03/2014

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Kisharon Langdon — Registered, 4 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 25/10/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram (929 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW DAVID LOFTUS · trustee of 4 other charities
• Bernard Harold Fromson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Claire Lemer · trustee of 3 other charities
• Emma Nathalie Castleton
• Irving Marc Lerner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Goldberg · trustee of 10 other charities
• Richard Levy
• Robert Meyer · trustee of 3 other charities
• Victoria Hart · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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.

• ANDREW DAVID LOFTUS — trustee here and at LOFTUS 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.

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 THE KISHARON CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE KISHARON CHARITABLE TRUST income £406k
• ZICHRON AHRON TRUST LTD income £52k
• CHASDEI AHARON LIMITED income £5.6m
• KEREN CHASODIM LTD income £534k
• HADERECH income £151k
• THE LANGDON FOUNDATION income £427k

Side by side with its peers

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