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Registered charity · Hertfordshire

The Book Trade Charity

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £911k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.btbs.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Book Trade Charity (Btbs)
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£911k£1.1m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.2m
  • 2022£838k£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£633k£1.0m
  • 2020£1.3m£1.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR SICKNESS AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF WELFARE WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT INCLUDE ACCOMMODATION FOR PERSONS WHO ARE, OR HAVE BEEN, EMPLOYED IN THE BOOK TRADE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE BOOKBINDING INDUSTRY AND ANY INDUSTRY WHICH IS AKIN TO, OR ALLIED TO, OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE BOOKBINDING INDUSTRY) FOR ONE YEAR OR MORE AND THEIR DEPENDANTS; AND THE PROVISION OF WELFARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO MAY WISH TO PREPARE FOR ENTRY INTO THE BOOK TRADETO FACILITATE OR PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING SO AS TO PROMOTE THE STUDY, KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE, PUBLISHING AND THE BOOK TRADE AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WORK WITHIN THE TRADE

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.

13 trustees on the board

4y median 0y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 13Education/training 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2

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

Other services 11Tech and media 3Business services 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£911k 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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 101.2 in 2020

4 from 4 in 2020
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
1128129
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/08/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/03/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27 APR 2016
Companies House
Company number 06725178 · Active
Contact on the register
01923263128 · victoria@btbs.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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