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Booktrust

Book Trust, Booktrust, National Book League

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
313343
Status
Registered
Registered
July 1, 1963
Legal form
Charitable company
Company number
00210012

Address

Address
1 Aire Street
Leeds
LS1 4PR

Activities

Reading changes lives. Booktrust ensures all children and families have the opportunity to enjoy and be confident in their reading. We provide expertise for parents and professionals to make quality choices of reading for children. We engage with communities in the promotion of reading. And we advocate for national and local policies to recognise the social and economic importance of reading.

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.

Classification

How
Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
What
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who
Children/young People, People With Disabilities, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, The General Public/mankind

Geography

Country
Northern Ireland
Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
March 31, 2025 £12,431,928 £12,530,475 £6,159,000 102
March 31, 2024 £12,022,881 £12,097,942 £6,192,177 97
March 31, 2023 £11,924,597 £13,769,928 £6,118,161 98
March 31, 2022 £11,071,181 £11,552,655 £8,274,498 90
March 31, 2021 £10,390,941 £10,215,057 £8,527,991 83

Trustees

Name Appointed
Radha Rupa Chakraborty (Chair) March 1, 2026
Edward David Poultney Sept. 1, 2024
Ellen Kristina Broome Sept. 1, 2024
Gautam Shashichandra Dalal June 25, 2021
Hilary Anne Murray Hill May 3, 2022
June O'Sullivan MBE Dec. 19, 2018
Nigel Jeremy Langstaff June 25, 2021
Professor Matthew Ellis Rowland Cripps Oct. 1, 2021
Professor Tim Michael Hobbs Sept. 1, 2024
Steven James Crocker OBE March 1, 2026
Victoria Kate Sellick June 25, 2021