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Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -7
Support Score: 1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +1
Overall GiG Score: -8 ?

THE LONDON READING CENTRE

Operation of a Lending Library specialising in Cultural Texts.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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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
31/07/23£81£97£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/22£145£157£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/21£101£99£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/20£28£27£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/19£24£22£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/18*£45£46£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/17£34£23£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

admin@londonreadingcentre.org

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Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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
The Clothworkers Foundation£5,000
Woodward Charitable Trust£1,700
Henry Smith Charity£1,680
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The London Reading Centre
£1,680 06/07/2021
towards the costs of a trip to an aqua park for children from disadvantaged communities from the London Borough of Haringey.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Summer Playscheme
£500 24/05/2021
Summer Playscheme
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,200 30/03/2021
Core costs.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to London Reading Centre
£5,000 09/09/2020
purchase of IT equipment for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in Hackney
National Lottery Community Fund - Learning to Read The Fun Way
£9,993 30/08/2017
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This project will create literacy and learning resources that will support young people from the Jewish community who have a range of educational needs, improving their chances in life.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
  • ALEXANDER JULIUS HALPERT (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Company Secretary
  • BEILE GITTY KRAUSZ Appointed: 2019
  • MENACHEM SHOLOM GELDZAHLER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/12/2016, number: 1170902
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investment
  • 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
7 returns made; AR18: 114 days late,
Main office

8 CRAVEN PARK ROAD
LONDON
N15 6AB

Objectives

(I) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL AND PARTICULARLY THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT.(II) TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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