Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 27 ?

BOOKMARK READING CHARITY

We're helping children develop the reading skills they need to succeed in school and beyond, by creating flexible volunteering at the heart of our communities.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/08/23£4,183£3,498£685£405£1,967£1,8366.3412,186
31/08/22£5,150£5,076£74£344£1,282£1,1552.7361,766
31/08/21£2,234£1,684£550£261£1,208£1,0157.2271,167
31/08/20?£2,036£1,621£415£238£658£5734.216561
31/03/19£744£501£243£86£243£2435.8419
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £110,000-£120,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 93%
Reserves/Spending: 6.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 8.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 7 years

www.bookmarkreading.org

info@bookmarkreading.org

02039957960

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Academic support
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£200,000
The Childhood Trust£175,000
City Bridge Trust£24,277
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£100,000 26/06/2023
36
Funding to expand into newcommunities
The Childhood Trust - Gift books to children in deprived London boroughs
£25,000 20/06/2023
School budget pressures and the cost-of-living crisis are limiting the literacy resources available to children and may cost them their future. You can help us bring high-quality, diverse books and ....more
The Childhood Trust - C-59288
£25,000 28/06/2022
Children have fallen behind with their reading. Bookmark's volunteer reading programme can help but we need to recruit, vet and train more volunteers, and onboard more schools. You can change ....more
The Childhood Trust - Give the gift of reading to children in London
£25,000 12/06/2022
Children in London are struggling to read. You can help us partner with six new primary schools in London and give the gift of reading to 1,680 children. If these children all held hands, they?d fit ....more
The Childhood Trust - Every child reading after lockdown
£25,000 22/06/2021
Children have been left behind by lockdown. Schools were closed for months. Children have fallen behind with their reading, and children in poverty have been hit the hardest. You can change that, by ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Bookmark Reading Charity
£10,000 09/02/2021
12
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£100,000 29/01/2021
EVERY CHILD READING
The Childhood Trust - Every child in London reading
£25,000 08/12/2020
Each year, 8 children in every class will leave primary school unable to read well. This year, with children missing months of school, it will be worse. And these children often struggle in school, ....more
The Childhood Trust - Every child in London reading
£25,000 08/12/2020
Each year, 8 children in every class will leave primary school unable to read well. This year, with children missing months of school, it will be worse. And these children often struggle in school, ....more
The Childhood Trust - No child left behind by lockdown
£25,000 03/07/2020
While schools are closed, some parents and carers just won't be able to help their children with their reading. When a child can't read, they struggle at school and beyond. This lockdown could create ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bookmark Reading Charity
£24,277 28/05/2020
A grant of £24,277 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-73
  • CHLOE WRIGHT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • HELEN JONES Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Customer Officer
  • MARK BYRNE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director Of Paid Media
  • PHILIP NEAL Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
  • PAUL RICHARD FLETCHER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Finance Director
  • SHARON JEAN PINDAR (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/03/2018, number: 1177681
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/12/2017, number: 11104438
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Third Floor
Charles House
5-11 Regent Street
St James's
London

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING OR SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERACY, AND (SAVE FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL AND ANCILLARY TO THAT OBJECT) NO OTHER PURPOSES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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