Registered charity (CIO) · London
The Queen's Reading Room
- 5 trustees
- Income £659k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
Network
The large node is The Queen's Reading Room. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, United States, Australia, Canada and more
- Website
- www.thequeensreadingroom.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2023
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£659k£616k
- 2024£1.1m£506k
Income trend, 2024 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: - PROMOTING AND PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE BY INTRODUCING CHILDREN AND ADULTS TO THE WORKS OF A DIVERSE RANGE OF AUTHORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, WHICH HAVE EDUCATIVE AND LITERARY OR HISTORIC MERIT; - COLLABORATING WITH AND SUPPORTING OTHER LITERACY CHARITIES; AND - SUCH OTHER MEANS ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT.
Grants received
2 grants · £250,000 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
- Rothschild Foundation · £250,000 (2 grants)
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Amanda Felicity Mackenzie LVO, OBE Chair
- Aatif Naveed Hassan since 2023
- Amanda Madeleine Macmanus CVO since 2023
- Gyles Brandreth since 2023
- Sir Michael Stevens since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Amanda Felicity Mackenzie LVO, OBE Chair
- Amanda Madeleine Macmanus CVO since 2023
- Gyles Brandreth since 2023
- Sir Michael Stevens since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Aatif Naveed Hassan since 2023
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
6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1201916
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 13 Feb 2023
- Contact on the register
- 07706084308 · info@thequeensreadingroom.co.uk
- 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data