Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 12

Strong growth: +2
Deficit latest year: -2
Future income +5
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 20

UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION

We are dedicated to transforming the lives of the world?s most disadvantaged children by focusing on literacy and education. We implement sustainable programs which aim to raise literacy standards and give individuals every possible chance to receive a quality education. Promoting and teaching literacy in early childhood years is not only key to success at school but also later in life.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

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 lower than spending in the latest year

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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
30/04/23	£208	£244	£-36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	56
30/04/22	£213	£229	£-16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	165
30/04/21	£169	£147	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	74
30/04/20	£45	£38	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	200
30/04/19	£29	£28	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	89
30/04/18	£60	£42	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/17	£14	£16	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/16	£13	£15	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/15	£11	£4	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/14	£1	£0	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 11 years

www.worldliteracyfoundation.org

info@worldliteracyfoundation.org

07842930125

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Early years interventions

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Birmingham City, Bristol City, Colombia, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Ghana, Kent, Kenya, Leicester City, Liverpool City, Manchester City, Milton Keynes, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
56 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

St Paul's Schools Foundation	£158,474
Esmee Fairbairn	£12,000
The Childhood Trust	£1,250
Woodward Charitable Trust	£750

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - TASK to World Literacy Foundation
£12,000	19/03/2024	TASK fund donation towards core costs for the TOTS (Turn On The Subtitles) initiative
St Paul's Schools Foundation - Grant to United Kingdom and Europe World Literacy Foundation
£158,474	30/11/2023	UK Reads: London Literacy Support Initiative.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£750	31/10/2022	Core costs
The Childhood Trust - Turning the page on childhood illiteracy...
£1,250	12/06/2022	UK Reads programme of support helps children and families, living in poverty, to find the joy in books and provide them with the resources they need to put reading at the heart of the home.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the cost of children’s books
£500	25/02/2016	Towards the cost of children’s books for marginalised and disadvantaged communities.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:

DARRYN KENEALLY Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Director

DR TONY CREE Appointed: 2021

JULIA KAY Appointed: 2021

SAMANTHA SIDA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Ceo

ANDREW KAY Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/10/2013, number: 1154264
Registered at Companies House on 05/04/2013, number: 08475669

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
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

10 returns made; all on time

Main office

Suite 225
46 Eversholt Street
London
NW1 1DA

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT (AS THOSE TERMS ARE UNDERSTOOD IN CHARITY LAW) BY:(1) PROVIDING AND SUPPORTING PROGRAMMES FOR THE PROMOTION OF LITERACY SKILLS IN PLACES OF NEED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD;(2) COLLABORATING WITH PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS WORKING TO IMPROVE LITERACY; AND(3) ASSISTING THOSE WORKING TO IMPROVE LITERACY, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH RESOURCES, CONTACTS WITH OTHERS IN THE FIELD, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN SKILLS AND EXPERTISE IN IMPROVING LITERACY.

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