QUEST FOR LEARNING

Registered charity 1107219 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as READING QUEST

WE HELP CHILDREN EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTIES WITH EARLY LITERACY AND NUMERACY TO IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS AND BECOME CONFIDENT AND ENTHUSIASTIC LEARNERS AT HOME AND SCHOOL. WE TEACH CHILDREN INDIVIDUALLY AND IN GROUPS ON TAILOR-MADE COURSES. WE MODEL OUR APPROACH AND SHARE IDEAS AND RESOURCES WITH THEIR PARENTS/CARERS. WE TRAIN TEACHERS AND TEACHING ASSISTANTS TO DELIVER BASIC SKILLS SUPPORT.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL AND ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16 EXPERIENCING BASIC DIFFICULTIES WITH LITERACY AND NUMERACY BY THE PROVISION OF AN EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE DELIVERED WITHIN SCHOOLS AND SUPPORTING LEARNING IN THE HOME; AND BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR SCHOOL TEACHING AND SUPPORT STAFF, TRAINEE TEACHERS AND CORPORATE VOLUNTEERS INVOLVED IN IMPROVING THE LITERACY AND NUMERACY SKILLS OF PUPILS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned to a surplus of £7,372 after a previous deficit, with total income of £187,723 and expenditure of £180,351. Unrestricted reserves stood at £93,872, which the trustees consider appropriate against a policy target of six months' operating expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable 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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2022 (received 04/07/2023, 34 days after the 31/05/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05273829 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WAUGH, Hannah Alice — director, appointed 26/02/2025on trustee list
• VENESS, James Dominic — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• ROSE, Kimberley — director, appointed 13/05/2020on trustee list
• WELLS, Edward Henry — director, appointed 07/06/2019not on trustee list
• BRICE, Benjamin Joe Lester — director, appointed 15/05/2019not on trustee list
• COPLESTON, Roger Gwilym — director, appointed 15/05/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roger Coplestonchair
• Cherida Plumb
• Hannah Waugh
• James Veness
• Kimberley Rose
• Ned Wells
• Rumbidzai Mutopo

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INSPIRING TEACHERS.

• INSPIRING TEACHERS income £395k
• CONNIE ROTHMAN LEARNING TRUST income £1.6m
• LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS income £688k
• CHILDREN'S EARLY INTERVENTION TRUST income £53k
• CHEFS IN SCHOOLS income £1.5m
• MOTIVATION AND LEARNING TRUST income £60k

Side by side with its peers

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