Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 10

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Multiple Deficits: -2

No conflicts policy: -1
Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 8

THE CENTRE FOR LITERACY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

Work with all those who are involved in literacy teaching in schools, the publishing industry and the wider system in the UK. Provide training, resources and support to develop and research the teaching of literacy and knowledge about children's literature. Increase awareness effective and creative literacy teaching to influence policy and practice to raise the achievement of children.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 22 years

www.clpe.org.uk

info@clpe.org.uk

02074013382

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/08/22		£1,367	£1,496	£-129	£0	£315	£231	1.9	21	0
31/08/21		£1,395	£1,353	£42	£0	£444	£368	3.3	20	0
31/08/20		£1,540	£1,428	£112	£0	£402	£313	2.6	20	0
31/08/19	*	£1,445	£1,577	£-132	£0	£290	£247	1.9	20	0
31/08/18	*	£1,585	£1,606	£-21	£0	£421	£414	3.1	19	1
31/08/17	*	£1,314	£1,388	£-75	£0	£442	£436	3.8	18	0
31/08/16		£1,250	£1,248	£2	£0	£517	£517	5	16	0
31/08/15		£1,239	£1,204	£34	£30	£515	£508	5.1	14	0
31/08/14		£1,302	£1,138	£164	£19	£481	£481	5.1	10	0
31/08/13	*	£1,192	£1,365	£-174	£33	£316	£316	2.8	13	0
31/08/12		£1,207	£1,180	£28	£22	£439	£439	4.5	12	0
31/08/11		£1,405	£1,393	£12	£15	£548	£548	4.7	15	0
31/08/10		£1,405	£1,417	£-12	£24	£399	£393	3.3	17	0
31/08/09		£1,433	£1,398	£35	£16	£331	£331	2.8	17	0
31/08/08		£1,374	£1,308	£66	£17	£543	£543	5	11	0
31/08/07		£1,426	£1,298	£128	£13	£547	£547	5.1	12	0
31/08/06		£1,366	£1,313	£53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/05		£1,306	£1,299	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/04		£1,177	£1,203	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 22%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 59%
Liabilities/Income: 33%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 73%
Reserves/Spending: 1.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Education/Training

How it operates

Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

21 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£283,681
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington	£275,275
DCMS	£240,987
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
City Bridge Trust	£18,814

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Reflecting Realities in the Classroom
£4,681	18/01/2023	The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) provides well-evidenced, creative literacy training and support for primary school staff to raise standards in language and literacy. This grant ....more The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) provides well-evidenced, creative literacy training and support for primary school staff to raise standards in language and literacy. This grant supports CLPE to work with published authors, poets and illustrators and ten London primary schools to deliver Reflecting Realities in the Classroom. The new programme will to support teachers and schools to be more critically reflective and actively engaged in ensuring inclusive and anti-racist practices in literacy teaching and learning, through arts-based approaches.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Reflecting Realities in the Classroom
£229,000	17/05/2021	The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) provides well-evidenced, creative literacy training and support for primary school staff to raise standards in language and literacy. This grant ....more The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) provides well-evidenced, creative literacy training and support for primary school staff to raise standards in language and literacy. This grant supports CLPE to work with published authors, poets and illustrators and ten London primary schools to deliver Reflecting Realities in the Classroom. The new programme will to support teachers and schools to be more critically reflective and actively engaged in ensuring inclusive and anti-racist practices in literacy teaching and learning, through arts-based approaches.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£50,000	26/08/2020 3	Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£30,000	22/05/2020	Supporting Literacy Teaching
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
£18,814	19/05/2020	A grant of £18,814 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
DCMS - CLPE Recovery Fund application
£150,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - CLPE Recovery Fund application - Round 2
£90,987	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Centre for Language in Primary Education (CLPE)
£275,275	06/03/2020 36	Improve young children’s vocabulary by improving the teaching of literacy and language alongside a book-gifting programme giving all children access to books in their home.
Walcot Foundation - Engaging Reluctant Readers and Writers
£9,840	08/03/2014	Engaging Reluctant Readers and Writers

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-68

ANTONIA BYATT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Arts Consultant/Director

BEVERLEY GREATHEAD Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired Headteacher

CATHERINE ROSE (Chair) Appointed: 1999, Occupation: Councillor

CECILIA WEILER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Lawyer

ELIZABETH CATFORD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Primary Publisher

JUSTIN SHINEBOURNE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Managing Director

RONALD WOODS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Trustee

RUKHSANA YASMIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Editor

SONJA AFZAL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Communications

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/06/2002, number: 1092698
Registered at Companies House on 01/03/2002, number: 04385537

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR19: 13 days late, AR18: 2 days late, AR17: 10 days late, AR13: 65 days late,

Main office

CENTRE FOR LITERACY IN PRIMARY
EDUCATION
WEBBER STREET
LONDON
SE1 8QW

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY IN THE FIELDS OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY TO:PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO SUCH FIELDS AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS; AND DEVELOP AND PROMOTE THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIELDS OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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