# BOOKTRUST

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 313343
- **Other names:** BOOK TRUST, BOOKTRUST, NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** July 1, 1963
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=313343


## Contact

- **Address:** 1 Aire Street, Leeds
- **Postcode:** LS1 4PR
- **Phone:** 0113 457 0026
- **Email:** Accounts@booktrust.org.uk
- **Website:** www.booktrust.org.uk



## Activities

**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.

**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.

**Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED




## 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



## Areas of operation

- Northern Ireland
- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £12431928 | £12530475 | £6159000 | 102 |
| March 31, 2024 | £12022881 | £12097942 | £6192177 | 97 |
| March 31, 2023 | £11924597 | £13769928 | £6118161 | 98 |
| March 31, 2022 | £11071181 | £11552655 | £8274498 | 90 |
| March 31, 2021 | £10390941 | £10215057 | £8527991 | 83 |



## Trustees

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