THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST

Registered charity 1116260 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC042944 (OSCR)

We are an independent charity that transforms lives through literacy. We improve reading, writing, speaking and listening in communities where poverty is on the increase and literacy levels are low. Our research and analysis make us the leading authority on literacy and drive our interventions. Our work is focused on critical moments in literacy development when we can make the greatest impact.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £3,704,462 at year-end, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £512,975. This reserve level represents 1.5 months of unrestricted expenditure, which is below the charity's stated policy target of three months. The trustees acknowledge this shortfall and have adopted a budget for the following year to focus on generating more unrestricted reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• National Literacy Trust awarded £300k by DCMS to fund Queen’s Christmas Present scheme thebookseller.com · 26/08/2026
• National Literacy Trust research shows first rise in children’s reading enjoyment in five years thebookseller.com · 10/06/2026
• Transworld donates 10k Terry Pratchett books to National Literacy Trust thebookseller.com · 04/06/2026
• EXPERIAN AND NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST LAUNCH “LIBRARY OF NO RETURNS” vergemagazine.co.uk · 14/04/2026
• National Literacy Trust and Lodge Balgonie Deliver Sensory Books to Fife Children. fifetoday.co.uk · 09/04/2026
• National Literacy Trust push tackles UK’s ‘reading crisis’ decisionmarketing.co.uk · 25/03/2026
• National Literacy Trust launches ‘Go All In’ for Reading 2026 mediashotz.co.uk · 24/03/2026
• Only 10% of boys aged 14-16 read daily for pleasure, National Literacy Trust finds theguardian.com · 22/02/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05836486

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National Literacy Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• RICHARDS, Jasmine — director, appointed 12/10/2025on trustee list
• ROSE, Catherine Ann — director, appointed 01/06/2025on trustee list
• KEAST, Bradley Martin — director, appointed 07/05/2025on trustee list
• HUDDART, Gabrielle Helen Louise — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
• INEOMO-MARCUS, Hilary — director, appointed 20/05/2024on trustee list
• HOPCROFT, Rachel Laura — director, appointed 20/05/2024on trustee list
• ENGLAND, Kersten Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/10/2023on trustee list
• BRADBURY, Matthew Anthony Wilson — director, appointed 20/07/2022on trustee list
• MONEY, Michelle, Professor — director, appointed 26/05/2022on trustee list
• HARDWICK, Catherine Mary — secretary, appointed 06/04/2022

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanna Priorchair
• Bradley Martin Keast
• Catherine Ann Rose
• Gabrielle Helen Louise Huddart
• Hilary Ineomo-Marcus
• Jasmine Richards
• Kersten Elizabeth England
• Louise Doughty
• Matthew Anthony Wilson Bradbury · trustee of 6 other charities
• Professor Michelle Money
• Rachel Laura Hopcroft

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ADULT LITERACY TRUST.

• ADULT LITERACY TRUST income £360k
• THE CENTRE FOR LITERACY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION income £1.0m
• BOOKTRUST income £12.4m
• UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION income £180k
• LITERACY VOLUNTEERS income £123k
• SCHOOLREADERS income £940k

Side by side with its peers

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