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Registered charity · London

Booker Prize Foundation

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £3.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.thebookerprizes.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Booker Prize Foundation
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.5m£3.3m
  • 2024£2.1m£3.2m
  • 2023£3.7m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.7m£2.6m
  • 2021£2.7m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE FOUNDATION’S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:PROMOTE THE ART OF LITERATURE; ANDADVANCE EDUCATION IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LITERACY AND LITERATURE.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4.7y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1Other Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 27Education 12Professional services 12

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.5m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 19.8 in 2021

11 from 1 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1090049
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 10TH MAY 2001 AND AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18TH DECEMBER 2001 AS AMENDED BY WRITTEN RESOLUTION DATED 26TH APRIL 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 FEB 2019
Companies House
Company number 04213467 · Active
Contact on the register
02077591077 · admin@bookerprizefoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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