JLE

Registered charity 292886 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JEWISH LEARNING EXCHANGE, OLAMI UK, THE FRIENDS OF OHR SOMEACH

To provide education and training for young Jewish people.To provide funds for students.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITIES CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN SUCH SHARES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Education/training · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £846,094 for the year ended 31st August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves falling to a deficit of £102,423. The trustees have prepared a multi-year plan to ensure continuing financial viability, noting that the charity's ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on securing ongoing funding and achieving forecast income levels. The independent auditors highlighted the net liabilities in their report but did not identify any material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fusion Audit Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: JEWISH LEARNING EXCHANGE BUILDING LIMITED Companies House 06131792

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ASHLEY COHEN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ian Carno · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sean Alan Melnick · trustee of 3 other charities
• Sony Douer · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Bristol City · Israel · Manchester City · Nottingham City · Throughout London · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 JEWISH LEGACY GIVING.

• JEWISH LEGACY GIVING income £47k
• YMC CHARITY income £47k
• JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECTS LIMITED income £94k
• J & J CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £156k
• TIFERET EYAL income £229k
• BETH ZILKA income £304k

Side by side with its peers

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