Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne
Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books Collection Trust
- 4 trustees
- Income £140k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£140k£3k
- 2024£81k£2k
- 2023£814k£2k
Earlier years
- 2022£940k£2k
- 2021£250k£2k
Charitable objects
THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN ANDYOUNG PEOPLE IN THE ARTS AND LITERATURE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF BRITAIN'S LITERARY HERITAGE FOR CHILDREN AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PRESERVING, MAINTAINING AND ADDING TO THE COLLECTION AND BY PROMOTING ACCESS TO THE COLLECTION.3.2 THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE COLLECTION IN TRUST FOR THE OBJECTS STRICTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS DEED.
Board analysis for researchers
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 trustees on the board
- Elizabeth Hammill
- Jane Rosen since 2025
- Matthew Thomas Mcwhinnie since 2023
- Professor Matthew Grenby since 2021
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Elizabeth Hammill
- Matthew Thomas Mcwhinnie since 2023
- Professor Matthew Grenby since 2021
Portfolio (1)
- Jane Rosen since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1115167
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 9 JUNE 2005AS AMENDED ON 15 APR 2016
- Contact on the register
- 08452710777 · sarah.lawrance@sevenstories.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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