KEREN ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 313119 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEREN ASSOCIATION

To further those purposes both in the United Kingdom and abroad recognised as charitable by English Law.

Objects

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net surplus of £512,535 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £2,271,962. The Trustees confirm that the financial position is satisfactory and that reserves are sufficient to support anticipated expenditure and ongoing grant-making activities. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

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
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00707087

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.

• STERN, Joseph — director, appointed 06/08/2020on trustee list
• PERELMAN, Asher Isiah — director, appointed 07/11/2019on trustee list
• ENGLANDER, Jacob Shea — directoron trustee list
• ENGLANDER, Pinkus Naftali — directoron trustee list
• ENGLANDER, Shulem Zvi — directoron trustee list
• WEISS, Hannah Zelda — directoron trustee list
• WEISS, Nicha — directoron trustee list
• ENGLANDER, Eliasz — directornot on trustee list
• WEISS, Hannah Zelda — secretary, appointed 25/01/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 15.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR E ENGLANDERchair · trustee of 8 other charities
• Asher Isiah Perelman · trustee of 3 other charities
• Hannah Zelda Weiss · trustee of 4 other charities
• JACOB SHEA ENGLANDER · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOSEPH STERN · trustee of 5 other charities
• NICHA WEISS · trustee of 3 other charities
• PINKUS NAFTOLA ENGLANDER
• SHULEM ZVI ENGLANDER · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Belgium · Israel · Throughout England And Wales · United States

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.

• Hannah Zelda Weiss — trustee here and at RIDGESAVE LIMITED
• MR E ENGLANDER — trustee here and at RIDGESAVE LIMITED

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 KEREN TRUST.

• KEREN TRUST income £179k
• KEEN LONDON income £397k
• UK FRIENDS OF KEREN OHR income £70k
• MELCREN LIMITED income £518k
• KEREN HATZOLO income £385k
• KEREN CHASANIM income £17k

Side by side with its peers

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