THE BOOK AID CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1039484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOOK AID

The objectives of the charity are to distribute Bibles and Christian books supplied by donors and supporters of the trust for the advancement of the Christian religion, public benefit or education and the relief of the aged, poor, sick or disabled either in the UK or overseas.

Objects

1.GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES 2.THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 3.THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION OR OTHER EDUCATION 4.THE RELIEF OF THE AGED POOR SICK OR DISABLED.

Area of benefit: WORLD WIDE

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

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Registered contact address: West Lindsey, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £169,143 for the year, reducing total net assets to £1,440,944. The trustees noted that while the capital position allowed them to continue as a going concern, the continued downturn in cash flow was serious. The charity underwent significant restructuring, including the sale of its London property and relocation of operations, to secure its financial future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Pauline Bellinghamchair
• ANDREW QUINNEY
• Alan Charles Paddock
• ROBERT IAN BRADSHAW

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

Operates in: Cameroon · Ghana · India · Kenya · Nigeria · Northern Ireland · Rwanda · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BOOKS ALIVE.

• BOOKS ALIVE income £98k
• THE JEWISH BOOK TRUST UK income £66k
• CHRISTIAN BOOKS, DUNSTABLE income £38k
• THE PRESENCE CHARITABLE TRUST income £191k
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• COMUNIDADE BIBLICA MISSIONARIA income £96k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.