SEVEN STORIES, THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS COLLECTION TRUST

Registered charity 1115167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEVEN STORIES, THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS, THE CENTRE FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS COLLECTION TRUST

The charity owns a collection of modern and contemporary British children's books and related original artwork, manuscripts and archives. The charity makes the collection available to Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books (registered charity 1056812) for use in exhibitions, educational activities, research and other programmes, for the public benefit.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN ANDYOUNG PEOPLE IN THE ARTS AND LITERATURE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF BRITAIN'S LITERARY HERITAGE FOR CHILDREN AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PRESERVING, MAINTAINING AND ADDING TO THE COLLECTION AND BY PROMOTING ACCESS TO THE COLLECTION.3.2 THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE COLLECTION IN TRUST FOR THE OBJECTS STRICTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS DEED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £16,822, which are represented entirely by cash at bank. The trustees confirm that the going concern basis is appropriate, noting that all ongoing costs are borne by the parent charity and that the entity has no staff or independent liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UNW LLP. Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Hammill
• Jane Rosen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Thomas McWhinnie
• Professor Matthew Grenby

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SEVEN STORIES, THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS.

• SEVEN STORIES, THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS income £1.6m
• THE STORY MUSEUM income £2.3m
• THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM CHARITABLE TRUST OF THE UNITED GRAND LODGE income £916k
• THE CENTRE FOR COMPUTING HISTORY income £417k
• TALL STORIES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £2.9m
• THE CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOW income £214k

Side by side with its peers

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