Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

READ EASY UK 

The object of the charity is 'to advance the education of the adult public in literacy'.Read Easy UK is an umbrella organisation that works to promote and support its model of volunteer-run, adult literacy 'groups'. Each locally-run, affiliated Read Easy group provides one-to-one reading coaching for adults with reading difficulties, using trained volunteer reading coaches.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 11 years

www.readeasy.org.uk

info@readeasy.org.uk

01388435021

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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
30/09/22£275£396£-121n/an/an/an/an/a1,351
30/09/21£385£290£95n/an/an/an/an/a1,095
30/09/20£264£187£77n/an/an/an/an/a912
30/09/19£241£200£41n/an/an/an/an/a912
30/09/18£132£131£1£0£0£0n/a0700
30/09/17£103£115£-12£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/16£115£76£39£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/15£86£57£29£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/14£30£32£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/13£14£7£8£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 1,351 volunteers

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
Dulverton Trust£155,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Esmee Fairbairn£18,630
National Lottery Community Fund£15,251
CHK Foundation£10,000
DCMS£6,500
Wiltshire Community Foundation£6,000
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Read Easy UK
£3,500 29/06/2023
Core costs for Disability Support & Activities
National Lottery Community Fund - A digital community project to help adults learn to read in rural Cornwall.
£9,951 20/01/2023
The funding will be used to provide free confidential one-to-one coaching for adults who struggle with reading in rural Cornwall. The project aims to improve people’s literacy skills to increase ....more
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to Read Easy
£1,475 31/07/2022
Read Easy is a national literacy charity with groups in over 60 towns and want to expand to Trafford
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Read Easy Melksham
£6,000 29/06/2022
Read Easy provides 1:1 volunteer coaches for adults to learn to read in the North Wiltshire area. Funding is towards general running costs.
Forever Manchester - Read Easy Wythenshawe
£1,000 22/06/2022
To train 10 volunteers
Dulverton Trust - Read Easy Core Funding
£120,000 08/06/2022
Read Easy Core Funding
One Manchester - Reading classes
£250 08/10/2021
Literacy Help
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Read Easy UK
£5,000 24/03/2021
Towards core costs of a new part-time Regional Adviser for London and the South East, who will recruit volunteers to pioneer and run new Read Easy groups in areas where literacy levels are low. The ....more
Dulverton Trust - Read Easy's expansion
£35,000 10/02/2021
Read Easy's expansion
Stockport MBC - Grant to Read Easy Stockport
£2,800 01/02/2021
Setting up local groups to help adults to read.
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 ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£10,000 04/08/2020
to support specified work
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Read Easy UK
£18,630 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Reader recruitment campaign
£5,300 11/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to promote their service which provides coaching to adults who are unable to read. The project aims to increase the group's outreach in order to improve life chances and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 29/05/2019
Helping Adults Learn to Read
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Wellington Read Easy
£3,184 19/11/2018
We need specialist manuals and reading books so adults can learn to read or improve poor reading ability.
National Lottery Community Fund - Expansion of Read Easy Bristol
£8,967 09/08/2018
12
The funding will be used to provide one to one reading support to adults with low literacy levels. The project aims to help people overcome the disadvantages that illiteracy brings.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Read Easy Melksham
£4,000 09/03/2018
Read Easy Melksham is a volunteer group helping adults to learn to read. Funding will help meet their volunteer, training and administrative costs
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£2,500 21/02/2018
Volunteer-led literacy and reading support for new readers and adults struggling with reading.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Read Easy UK
£116,180 21/11/2017
36
Towards the salary of a regional adviser, trainer and project costs to improve outcomes for marginalised, illiterate adults living in deprived parts of North West England.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Read Easy UK
£3,416 04/08/2017
Few things can be as socially isolating as not being able to read. Fund our courses to give people the independence to live life to the full
Tudor Trust - Grant to Read Easy UK
£50,000 18/07/2016
24
over two years towards salaries at a volunteer community based reading programme for adults with reading difficulties
Tudor Trust - Grant to Read Easy UK
£100,000 22/12/2014
24
over two years towards the core costs of a volunteer-led, community-based reading tuition programme for adults with reading difficulties across the UK
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/03/2013, number: 1151288
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

Unit 3
Batsford Estates
Batsford
MORETON-IN-MARSH
Gloucestershire
GL56 9QF

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE ADULT PUBLIC IN LITERACY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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