BAG BOOKS

Registered charity 1026432 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To enhance the lives of children and adults with learning disabilities through the use of multi-sensory books

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RECREATION AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH SPECIAL LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND/OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE USE OF TACTILE BOOKS AND RELATED MATERIAL IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND FOR THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned to a small surplus of £4,547 in 2025 after three consecutive years of deficit, with total funds carried forward standing at £158,238. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £82,755 were held below the revised policy target of £140,000 to £180,000, but the charity entered 2026 with over £200,000 of income already secured, providing increased financial stability.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wyatts. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bag Books (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Pearson
• JONATHAN PATRICK JAMES WALSH
• Karl Massey
• NATASHA THEOBALD
• RACHEL ELIZABETH TYSON

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Belgium · Canada · Denmark · Germany · Japan · Netherlands · New Zealand · Northern Ireland · Portugal · Scotland · South Korea

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REACH LEARNING DISABILITY.

• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• CHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT income £583k
• BID SERVICES income £6.6m
• BETTER THINGS income £20k
• BEAMSTAFFS income £211k
• LISTENING BOOKS income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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