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What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
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Description
To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of citizens and inhabitants of the United Kingdom and other countries, in particular the advancement of education, the furtherance of health, the relief of poverty, distress and sickness, the promotion of social inclusion and furtherance of community especially through reading and literature-based activities.
OSCR Charity number
Registered
Postcode
L18 3JB
Website
Latest income
£4,241,373 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download published by Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.
Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 3 active records and 0 inactive records, from 3 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC043054 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
Activities (OSCR)
- It carries out activities or services itself
Beneficiaries (OSCR)
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes (OSCR)
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Community and economic development activities
F20
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.
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Arts
AR
» Media and publishingAR200
» LiteratureAR202
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Education
ED
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Health
HE
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Social welfare
SW
» Individual povertySW105
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Social welfare
SW
» Social activitiesSW107
Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
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2012-03-28 |
Registered as a charity |
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2017-03-31 | 3,044,142 | 3,062,213 |
2018-03-31 | 3,169,874 | 2,359,882 |
2019-03-31 | 7,104,796 | 2,807,623 |
2020-03-31 | 4,048,009 | 3,473,454 |
2021-03-31 | 3,646,527 | 3,466,633 |
2022-03-31 | 4,064,045 | 4,197,492 |
2023-03-31 | 4,241,373 | 4,912,149 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
Received 56 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
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The National Lottery Community Fund | £120,000 | Shared Reading for Mental Health | ||
Masonic Charitable Foundation
Large Grant |
£59,312 | MCF Large Grant | ||
Garfield Weston Foundation
Health |
£150,000 | Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award | ||
The Rayne Foundation |
£35,000
2 years |
Grant to The Reader Organisation | ||
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
National Portfolio Organisations |
£178,220 | National Portfolio Organisations | ||
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
National Lottery Grants for Heritage: £10,000 to £250,000 |
£243,040 | Grant to The Reader Organisation | ||
City Bridge Trust
Connecting the Capital |
£47,785 | Grant to The Reader | ||
The Tudor Trust |
£2,000
6 months |
Grant to The Reader Organisation
Mar 2021 to Sep 2021 |
||
Garfield Weston Foundation
Arts |
£143,776 | WCF award - COVID19 response | ||
Steve Morgan Foundation
Community Match Challenge |
£924,600 | Grant to The Reader |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- A B Charitable Trust (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Cabinet Office (8 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Cheshire Community Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- BBC Children in Need (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- City Bridge Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Comic Relief (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- John Ellerman Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (4 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation (previously Guy's and St Thomas' Charity) (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Garfield Weston Foundation (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Henry Smith Charity (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Masonic Charitable Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Mercers' Company (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Nesta (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Rayne Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Steve Morgan Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Suffolk Community Foundation (6 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (7 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Tudor Trust (6 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- United St Saviour's Charity (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
National Lottery grants data comes from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport who publish the National Lottery grants database.
This data is used under the Open Government Licence. Grants that are also published under 360Giving have been removed to ensure there is not duplication.
- The National Lottery (1 grant) | Licence
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