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Registered charity · Leeds

Booktrust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website
www.booktrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Booktrust
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£13m
  • 2024£12m£12m
  • 2023£12m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£12m
  • 2021£10m£10m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ENCOURAGE FOSTER OR STRENGTHEN THE HABIT OF READING AND THE WIDER AND MORE GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS OF BY AND AMONG ALL PEOPLE.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

3.5y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.4y
average years in governance
9
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 8General Charitable Purposes 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Economic/community Development/employment 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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

Education 15Other services 5Business services 3

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£12.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

5.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.0 in 2021

102 from 83 in 2021
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.
63%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
313343
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/11/1925AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/09/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/09/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/09/1999NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 21/09/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 23/03/2006 as amended on 02 Jul 2019 as amended on 09 Oct 2023
Companies House
Company number 00210012 · Active
Contact on the register
0113 457 0026 · Accounts@booktrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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