Registered charity · London
Room to Read UK Limited
- 5 trustees
- Income £1.2m (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos and more
- Website
- www.roomtoread.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Room to Read UK Limited
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£1.2m£1.9m
- 2023£2.1m£1.7m
- 2022£3.8m£1.5m
Earlier years
- 2021£929k£1.2m
- 2020£1.9m£2.2m
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES INCLUDING BOOKS, SCHOOLS, SCHOLARSHIPS, TRAINING, CAPACITY BUILDING AND OTHER GOODS, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE SUCH NEEDS, IN COOPERATION WITH OTHER ROOM TO READ OFFICES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ('THE OBJECTS').
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Dean Howard Chan Chair
- Douglas Hill
- Heather Simpson since 2020
- MR Martyn Christopher Gowar since 2011
- Shari Lynn Freedman since 2014
Trustees past 6 years
- Heather Simpson since 2020
- MR Martyn Christopher Gowar since 2011
- Shari Lynn Freedman since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Dean Howard Chan Chair
- Douglas Hill
- Heather Simpson since 2020
- Shari Lynn Freedman since 2014
Portfolio (1)
- MR Martyn Christopher Gowar since 2011
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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.7 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1125803
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 SEPTEMBER 2008
- Companies House
- Company number 06685456 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02078733603 · Europe@roomtoread.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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