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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Children's Book Project

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £583k (2025)
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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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 3 more
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.childrensbookproject.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£583k£478k
  • 2024£363k£251k
  • 2023£193k£129k
Earlier years
  • 2022£82k£70k
  • 2021£59k£40k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF BABIES, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 0-14 YEARS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY GIFTING GOOD QUALITY, RELEVANT, RE-HOMED BOOKS TO CHILDREN WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO AFFORD THEM, AND BY CREATING SUSTAINABLE READING COMMUNITIES AMONGST TARGETED GROUPS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF REGULAR INCLUSIVE BOOK GIFTING EVENTS.TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS RELATED TO RE-USE AND RECYCLING OF PRE-LOVED CHILDRENS BOOKS.

Grants received

4 grants · £18,100 total

360Giving 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

Most recent

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.

6 trustees on the board

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 6Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6

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

Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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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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£583k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

4.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

12
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
1183092
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 24 APR 2019 AS AMENDED ON 29 APR 2020 AS AMENDED ON 29 APR 2020 AS AMENDED ON 06 FEB 2024 AS AMENDED ON 07 FEB 2024AMENDED ON 16 JAN 2025
Contact on the register
07968064118 · liberty@childrensbookproject.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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