## **Reading Reform Foundation (RRF) Trustees’ Annual Report** For the year 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 ## **1. Charity Details** **Charity name:** Reading Reform Foundation (RRF) **Registered charity number:** 1210340 **Principal address:** 14 Fellthorne, Abingdon, OX14 2AY **Website:** https://readingreform.org ## **Trustees during the year:** - Elizabeth Anne Nonweiler (Chair) - Sara Louise Farrands - Anne Kathryn Marlynne Grant - Carl Pattison - Amy Hulson-Jones - Robert William Randel - Derrie Ginette Clark - Susan Joan Cunningham - Alison Lewis - Morven Sutherland-Pelly – left November 2024 - Nicola Humphreys – joined November 2024 ## **2. Structure, Governance and Management** ## **Governing document** The Reading Reform Foundation is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), registered with the Charity Commission on 4[th] October 2024. It is governed by its constitution, which sets out the charity’s purposes and the arrangements for its administration. Trustees are appointed in accordance with the constitution by the existing trustee body. The trustees meet regularly to oversee the charity’s work. ## **Management** The trustees are responsible for all decisions. The charity has no paid staff; all work is carried out voluntarily by trustees and supporters. ## **3. Objectives and Activities** ## **Charitable purposes** fundamental reading and writing skills, in particular but not exclusively in the United Kingdom, by providing relevant information and promoting the most effective teaching methods according to reliable evidence, for all those involved in the write. ## **Main activities undertaken to achieve these purposes** The RRF provides information, mainly online through the RRF website (readingreform.org). This information is shared on social media from time to time. The content includes advice about how to teach reading and writing, background information about the English alphabetic code, research and evidence about the teaching of reading and writing, links to further discussion and evidence, articles on relevant topics, and contact details to allow questions that members of the RRF can respond to. ## **4. Achievements and Performance During the Year** - Trustees attended regular online meetings (nearly once a month). - The RRF gained official status as a CIO with the Charity Commission in October 2024. - The RRF opened a bank account with CAF Bank Limited (a subsidiary of the Charites Aid Foundation) in January 2025. - A new website was designed for the RRF, to provide clearer explanations of evidence- based reading instruction. (This website was finally published in May - 2025.) - Committee members were involved in their own work with activities and discussions related to the aims of the RRF. They reported these at RRF meetings. - The Welsh government invited Elizabeth Nonweiler, in her role as Chair of the RRF, to join their “Expert Reading Panel”. She attended meetings with panel members and reviewed draft statements. ## **5. Financial Review** The RRF received no funds over the period and had only a few expenses, as in the accounts submitted to the Charity Commission. The principal income during the year was a donation of £5,329.24 transferred into the new CAF bank account in January 2025. This represented funds previously held temporarily in trust by the Chair while the charity waited for charitable status and the opening of a suitable charity bank account. Expenditure was minimal and related primarily to website hosting, administrative costs, and essential operational expenses. |**Reading Reform Foundation**
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**from**|Apr-24|**To**|Apr-25| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||| |---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Openingbalance
**5,329**
Bank interest
**2**
**5,331**
**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 5,331**
**A3 Payments**
Refund EN Domain Renewal with Siteground
**18**
Refund EN Phone Renewal with Lebara
**32**
Refund EN Zoom Subscrition(-25%personal use)
**117**
Bank Account Monthly Fees: 2 months at £5
**10**
**_Sub total_ 176**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 176**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 5,155**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 5,155**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**
**table)**|**to the nearest £**
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**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,329**
**2**
**5,331**
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**-**
**5,331**
**18**
**32**
**117**
**10**
**176**
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**176**
**5,155**
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**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**
No other cash funds
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None
Bank balance at end of period (5 April 2025)
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**5,155**
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**-**
**5,155**
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**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -** **Current value (optional) - - - - -** **Current value (optional)** **-** **When due (optional)** Date of approval 5-Feb-26