Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +5
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

READ EASY UK

The object of the charity is 'to advance the education of the adult public in literacy'.Read Easy UK is an umbrella organisation that works to promote and support its model of volunteer-run, adult literacy 'groups'. Each locally-run, affiliated Read Easy group provides one-to-one reading coaching for adults with reading difficulties, using trained volunteer reading coaches.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£393£466£-73n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/22£275£396£-121n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/21£385£290£95n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/20£264£187£77n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/19£241£200£41n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/18£132£131£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/17£103£115£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/16£115£76£39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/15£86£57£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/14£30£32£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/13£14£7£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.readeasy.org.uk

info@readeasy.org.uk

01388435021

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Dulverton Trust£155,000
Esmee Fairbairn£18,630
The Grocers' Charity£10,000
CHK Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,951
Wiltshire Community Foundation£6,500
DCMS£6,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Grant - Read Easy UK
£5,000 14/12/2023
To support life-changing free reading tuition for individuals in Ealing/West London. Reading skills help people live fully and empower them to realise their potential.
Essex Community Foundation - Read Easy Harlow & Chelmsford
£2,908 31/07/2023
to support the costs of confidential one-to-one reading coaching to adults in Harlow and Chelmsford
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Read Easy UK
£3,500 29/06/2023
Core costs for Disability Support & Activities
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Read Easy Melksham
£500 22/02/2023
Read Easy provides 1:1 volunteer coaches for adults to learn to read in the North Wiltshire area. Funding is towards general running costs.
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Read Easy - Peterborough
£2,808 08/02/2023
17
to supply specialist training manuals and volunteer coach training to teach 20 adults literacy learning skills
National Lottery Community Fund - A digital community project to help adults learn to read in rural Cornwall.
£9,951 20/01/2023
The funding will be used to provide free confidential one-to-one coaching for adults who struggle with reading in rural Cornwall. The project aims to improve people’s literacy skills to increase their skills confidence mental wellbeing and ....more
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Read Easy Stevenage and North Herts
£1,000 03/01/2023
11
Grant to Read Easy Stevenage and North Herts
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to Read Easy
£1,475 31/07/2022
Read Easy is a national literacy charity with groups in over 60 towns and want to expand to Trafford
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Read Easy Melksham
£6,000 29/06/2022
Read Easy provides 1:1 volunteer coaches for adults to learn to read in the North Wiltshire area. Funding is towards general running costs.
Forever Manchester - Read Easy Wythenshawe
£1,000 22/06/2022
To train 10 volunteers
Dulverton Trust - Read Easy Core Funding
£120,000 08/06/2022
Read Easy Core Funding
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Read Easy UK
£5,000 24/03/2021
Towards core costs of a new part-time Regional Adviser for London and the South East, who will recruit volunteers to pioneer and run new Read Easy groups in areas where literacy levels are low. The service is free and 1-1 coaching.
Dulverton Trust - Read Easy's expansion
£35,000 10/02/2021
Read Easy's expansion
Stockport MBC - Grant to Read Easy Stockport
£2,800 01/02/2021
Setting up local groups to help adults to read.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£6,500 25/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£10,000 04/08/2020
to support specified work
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Read Easy UK
£18,630 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Reader recruitment campaign
£5,300 11/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to promote their service which provides coaching to adults who are unable to read. The project aims to increase the group's outreach in order to improve life chances and employability.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 29/05/2019
Helping Adults Learn to Read
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Wellington Read Easy
£3,184 19/11/2018
We need specialist manuals and reading books so adults can learn to read or improve poor reading ability.
National Lottery Community Fund - Expansion of Read Easy Bristol
£8,967 09/08/2018
12
The funding will be used to provide one to one reading support to adults with low literacy levels. The project aims to help people overcome the disadvantages that illiteracy brings.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Read Easy Melksham
£4,000 09/03/2018
Read Easy Melksham is a volunteer group helping adults to learn to read. Funding will help meet their volunteer, training and administrative costs
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£2,500 21/02/2018
Volunteer-led literacy and reading support for new readers and adults struggling with reading.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Read Easy UK
£116,180 21/11/2017
36
Towards the salary of a regional adviser, trainer and project costs to improve outcomes for marginalised, illiterate adults living in deprived parts of North West England.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Read Easy UK
£3,416 04/08/2017
Few things can be as socially isolating as not being able to read. Fund our courses to give people the independence to live life to the full
Tudor Trust - Grant to Read Easy UK
£50,000 18/07/2016
24
over two years towards salaries at a volunteer community based reading programme for adults with reading difficulties
Tudor Trust - Grant to Read Easy UK
£100,000 22/12/2014
24
over two years towards the core costs of a volunteer-led, community-based reading tuition programme for adults with reading difficulties across the UK
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

  • CAROLINE O'CONNOR Appointed: 2021
  • CHRISTOPHER JOHN BALE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired Charity Director
  • ELIZABETH ELSA HOPES Appointed: 2023
  • HARRIET AYLES Appointed: 2020
  • PANAGIOTA KOULOURI Appointed: 2021
  • PAUL JAMES MUGFORD (Chair) Appointed: 2020
  • PIERRE ESPINASSE Appointed: 2017
  • SARA ANNE ERASMUS Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/03/2013, number: 1151288
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

Kenton House
Oxford Street
MORETON-IN-MARSH
Gloucestershire
GL56 0LA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE ADULT PUBLIC IN LITERACY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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