Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

'LEARN TO LOVE TO READ'

Operating in Wandsworth, London, we want all children aged 0 to 11 years to have frequent, positive reading experiences. We train teams of volunteers to give one-to-one support in primary schools. We run early literacy classes for parents and toddlers. We encourage and equip parents to support their children's reading at home.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely female?

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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
31/08/23£147£105£42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/22?£59£62£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£48£73£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£113£67£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£40£36£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£40£28£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

www.learn2love2read.org.uk

matilda@l2l2r.org

020 8877 3003

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Wandsworth,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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
Tuixen Foundation£42,500
J J Charitable Trust£20,000
City Bridge Trust£15,600
The Foyle Foundation£10,000
The London Community Foundation£10,000
DCMS£6,500
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£5,000
Co-Operative Group£3,923
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
J J Charitable Trust - Volunteer reading support for disadvantaged Wandsworth primary school pupils
£20,000 12/07/2024
One-to-one volunteer reading support for primary-age children in Wandsworth.
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Learn to Love to Read
£10,000 05/07/2024
Learn to Love to Read teach pre-school and KS1 children to read, and their families how to love books and reading.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£10,000 10/07/2023
towards core costs
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Learn to Love to Read
£10,000 06/07/2023
Learn to Love to Read teach pre-school and KS1 children to read, and their families how to love books and reading.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Learn to Love to Read
£5,000 24/04/2023
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Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Learn to Love to Read
£7,500 19/07/2022
Learn to Love to Read teach pre-school and KS1 children to read, and their families how to love books and reading.
The Childhood Trust - Helping children learn to love to read
£2,500 12/06/2022
Our vision for Wandsworth is #everychildareader. We are expanding our existing work to support children aged 0 to 11 years. We help young children start school ready to read, primary children build a love of reading as well as reading skills, and ....more
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Learn to Love to Read
£7,500 23/07/2021
Learn to Love to Read teach pre-school and KS1 children to read, and their families how to love books and reading.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Learn to Love to Read
£10,000 18/12/2020
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The funding is for equipment to adapt our services for digital delivery: laptops for staff to facilitate the hugely increased online workload; and tablets to lend to disadvantaged, digitally excluded families and, where required, a contribution ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Learn to Love to Read
£3,923 24/10/2020
We will help primary age children who find reading difficult, build early literacy in toddlers and train parents to support reading at home.
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
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Learn to Love to Read
£7,500 05/08/2020
Learn to Love to Read teach pre-school and KS1 children to read, and their families how to love books and reading.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Learn to Love to Read
£15,600 19/05/2020
A grant of £15,600 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
The Wimbledon Foundation - Education support
£2,500 04/05/2020
Distribution of reading and educational resources to families in Wandsworth
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Learn to Love to Read
£7,500 11/07/2019
Learn to Love to Read teach pre-school and KS1 children to read, and their families how to love books and reading.
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Learn to Love to Read
£5,000 10/08/2018
Learn to Love to Read teach pre-school and KS1 children to read, and their families how to love books and reading.
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Learn to Love to Read
£5,000 12/07/2017
Learn to Love to Read teach pre-school and KS1 children to read, and their families how to love books and reading.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

  • CAROLYN PAMELA ANNE STUBBS Appointed: 2017
  • JACQUELINE WENDY CARSON (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • JOANNA LOUISE HENLEY Appointed: 2023
  • PRIYA DARSHINI CHHETRI Appointed: 2023
  • RIZ KHAN Appointed: 2024
  • TERESA JANE HARRIS Appointed: 2017
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/10/2017, number: 1175288
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

L2L2R at St Michael's Church
71 Wimbledon Park Road
Southfields
London
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Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ACROSS THE UK, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING LITERACY SUPPORT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PRIMARY SCHOOLS, CHURCHES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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