Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

GIVE A BOOK 

Give a Book is a UK based charity that promotes books and the pleasure of reading in the hardest places. Our main areas of work are in prisons and with disadvantaged children and young people throughout the UK. Our core belief is that to pass on a good read - to give a book - is a transaction of lasting worth.
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 have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 11 years

www.giveabook.org.uk

info@giveabook.org.uk

02073711460

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
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
31/03/23£288£243£45n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/22£153£180£-27n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£218£157£61n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/20£180£174£6n/an/an/an/an/a100
31/03/19£197£202£-4n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/18£211£186£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£113£123£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£139£116£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£96£73£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£56£63£-7£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 50 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Wates Foundation£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
LUND TRUST£10,000
Rothschild Foundation£10,000
Dulverton Trust£10,000
Allen Lane Foundation£8,000
DCMS£5,000
Westminster Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wates Foundation - Raising Readers - RWF May 2023
£10,000 17/05/2023
Funding towards Raising Readers: a family reading project connecting parents with their children despite the distance and difficult circumstances. We send in 100 books every quarter from a bespoke ....more
LUND TRUST - Towards core costs
£5,000 01/12/2022
To promote reading in disadvantaged schools and prisons
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Give a Book
£8,000 11/07/2022
£8,000 single grant towards running cost of this national organisation's prison work.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Give a Book
£10,000 12/02/2022
Development and expansion of charity work
LUND TRUST - Towards core costs
£5,000 15/12/2021
To promote reading in disadvantaged schools and prisons
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£20,000 27/11/2020
Leading to Reading
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Give a Book
£3,000 18/09/2020
Prison Family Reading Initiatives
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£5,000 15/07/2020
"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 ....more
Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
£2,500 30/04/2020
3
Westminster Children's Book Provision (Covid-19)
Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
£2,500 30/04/2020
3
Westminster Children's Book Provision (Covid-19)
Wates Foundation - Give A Book
£10,000 16/04/2020
Towards the provision of mini-dictionaries to prisoners who complete the Reading Ahead Challenge.
Dulverton Trust - Reading in Prison ? Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019
£10,000 12/06/2019
Reading in Prison ? Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019
Dulverton Trust - Reading in Prison
£25,400 13/02/2019
Reading in Prison
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 25/07/2018
Reading On
Dulverton Trust - Leading to Reading
£10,000 25/10/2016
Leading to Reading
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/11/2012, number: 1149664
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

112-114 HOLLAND PARK AVENUE
LONDON
W11 4UA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE READING FOR PLEASURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF BOOKS AND READING PROJECTS IN PRISONS, SCHOOLS AND WITH DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN THE UK, REACHING PEOPLE WHO HAVE A NEED DUE TO THEIR SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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