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Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +5
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

ASSISTING BERKSHIRE CHILDREN TO READ

ABC to read aims to advance the education of the public in Berkshire by:a) providing tuition and support to help children in Berkshire schools to overcome reading difficulties thereby promoting self-confidence.b) providing workshops, training and support to parents and guardians of such children so that they may gain greater confidence in assisting the children to read.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • 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
31/03/24£116£139£-23n/a
31/03/23£131£118£13n/a
31/03/22£109£98£11n/a
31/03/21£84£86£-1n/a
31/03/20£8£23£-15n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.abctoread.org.uk

info@abctoread.org.uk

01189511336

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
The Grocers' Charity£3,118
Co-Operative Group£2,218
Woodward Charitable Trust£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Grant - Assisting Berkshire Children to read
£3,118 19/06/2024
To support recruiting five new community volunteers who will help children discover the pleasure of reading. With more community volunteer reading mentors, more children from disadvantaged backgrounds with poor literacy skills will be supported.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to ABC to Read (Assisting Berkshire Children)
£2,218 21/10/2023
We would like to help 15 additional children, for half an hour twice a week in term time, to gain the skills they need to succeed at primary and secondary levels by improving their reading abilities.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000 24/03/2023
Core costs
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000 26/03/2021
Core costs.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ADRIAN GILMOUR MELDRUM Appointed: 2019
  • CLAIRE LOUISE HERRIOTT Appointed: 2019
  • HANNAH CORINNA MCNICHOLL Appointed: 2021
  • JENNIFER COONEY Appointed: 2019
  • LEORAH STEWART Appointed: 2024
  • MICHAEL EDWARDS Appointed: 2019
  • PAULINE VERA HARPER Appointed: 2019
  • STEPHEN GRAHAM SMITH Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/08/2019, number: 1184968
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
  • 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
5 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from ASSISTING BERKSHIRE CHILDREN TO READ on 05/03/2020
Main office

St. Marks Church Hall
94 Cranbury Road
READING
RG30 2TA

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BERKSHIRE BY:A) PROVIDING TUITION AND SUPPORT TO HELP CHILDREN IN BERKSHIRE SCHOOLS TO OVERCOME READING DIFFICULTIES THEREBY PROMOTING SELF-CONFIDENCE.B) PROVIDING WORKSHOPS, TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS OF SUCH CHILDREN SO THAT THEY MAY GAIN GREATER CONFIDENCE IN ASSISTING THE CHILDREN TO READ.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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