Registered charity (CIO) · Bedford
Schoolreaders
- 9 trustees
- Income £940k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Jane Elizabeth WhitbreadChair · since 2014
- Alice Veryan GarnettTrustee · since 2021
- Amrutha ShankaraTrustee · since 2026
- John Keaveny HoweTrustee · since 2026
- Kate GomesTrustee · since 2026
- Kirstin Rebecca WhiteheadTrustee · since 2025
- Nicholas Patrick FroyTrustee · since 2022
- Rory Buchanan LandmanTrustee · since 2021
- Shannan StevensonTrustee · since 2018
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.schoolreaders.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2014
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£940k£1.2m
- 2024£1.7m£995k
- 2023£747k£738k
Earlier years
- 2022£565k£524k
- 2021£545k£365k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE UK BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING THE PROVISION OF LITERACY SUPPORT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF VOLUNTEERS TO UK PRIMARY SCHOOLS TO LISTEN TO PUPILS READ AND ENCOURAGE THEIR READING SKILLS.
Grants received
34 grants · £794,824 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £375,000 (6 grants)
- J J Charitable Trust · £120,000
- The Tudor Trust · £92,000 (3 grants)
- CHK Foundation · £70,000 (2 grants)
- The Leathersellers' Foundation · £42,500 (2 grants)
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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.
9 trustees on the board
- Jane Elizabeth Whitbread Chair since 2014
- Alice Veryan Garnett since 2021
- Amrutha Shankara since 2026
- John Keaveny Howe since 2026
- Kate Gomes since 2026
- Kirstin Rebecca Whitehead since 2025
- Nicholas Patrick Froy since 2022
- Rory Buchanan Landman since 2021
- Shannan Stevenson since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Jane Elizabeth Whitbread Chair since 2014
- Shannan Stevenson since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Alice Veryan Garnett since 2021
- Amrutha Shankara since 2026
- John Keaveny Howe since 2026
- Kate Gomes since 2026
- Kirstin Rebecca Whitehead since 2025
Portfolio (4)
- Jane Elizabeth Whitbread Chair since 2014
- Nicholas Patrick Froy since 2022
- Rory Buchanan Landman since 2021
- Shannan Stevenson since 2018
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
6.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 12.7 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1159157
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Foundation Registered 11 Nov 2014
- Contact on the register
- 01234 924222 · enquiries@schoolreaders.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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