Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 4

Future income +5
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 11

BOOK CLUBS IN SCHOOLS

To advance the education of children and young people in the UK for the public benefit, giving priority to those pupils who are affected by social and economic disadvantage, by the encouragement of reading and the promotion of literacy skills through the provision of book clubs and related literacy activities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

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	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/08/23	£55	£59	£-4	n/a
31/08/22	£59	£51	£8	n/a
31/08/21	£42	£37	£5	n/a
31/08/20	£21	£18	£3	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.bookclubsinschools.org

alison@bookclubsinschools.org

07808587606

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Support for specific schools

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Throughout England,

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Book Clubs in Schools
£55,500	26/01/2021 40	Delivery of book clubs in six disadvantaged schools in Hammersmith and Fulham and Tower Hamlets and to support research into the impact of the programme.
John Lyon's Charity - Small grant to Book Clubs in Schools
£4,800	09/03/2020 12	Hammersmith and Fulham Book Clubs in Schools (H&FBCiS)

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALISON JANE LAMBERT Appointed: 2020

BETH GINSBURG (Chair) Appointed: 2022

RICHARD JOHN PARKIN Appointed: 2020

TONY SMITH Appointed: 2019

VICTORIA GRAY Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/09/2019, number: 1185409

Gift Aid

NOT 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
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

37 Southdean Gardens
London
Southfields
London

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