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Registered charity · London

Book AID International

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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
Education/training, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Cameroon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and more
Website
www.bookaid.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Book AID International
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£14m
  • 2024£22m£21m
  • 2023£23m£20m
Earlier years
  • 2022£18m£17m
  • 2021£13m£16m
Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND LITERACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BY CHARITABLE MEANS:(A) BY ESTABLISHING, PROVIDING AND CARRYING ON THE SERVICE OF PROCURING AND DISTRIBUTING READING AND INFORMATION MATERIAL REGARDLESS OF MEDIUM TO DEVELOPING AND OTHER COUNTRIES IN NEED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES;(B) BY DISTRIBUTING CONSIGNMENTS OF SUCH MATERIAL TO PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY LIBRARIES, UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, YOUTH AND CHILDREN'S CENTRES AND OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS ACCORDING TO THE LOCAL NEEDS AND PRIORITIES; AND(C) BY PROMOTING OR SUPPORTING ANY TRAINING OR OTHER ACTIVITY WHICH IS DESIGNED TO ENHANCE THE USE OF BOOKS, READING AND OTHER INFORMATION MATERIAL IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
6.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 10Overseas Aid/famine Relief 10The 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 11Professional services 7Tech and media 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£22.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.9 in 2020

28 from 26 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
313869
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03/06/1966AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/11/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/07/2004NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 26/05/2011 as amended on 15 Nov 2022
Companies House
Company number 00880754 · Active
Contact on the register
02077333577 · alison.tweed@bookaid.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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