SHANNON TRUST

Registered charity 1117249 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7763655 · Wikipedia · also known as THE SHANNON TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC043470 (OSCR)

Delivering a peer-led Reading Plan where prisoners who can read teach prisoners who cannot in prisons across England, Wales & Northern Ireland.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE PROMOTION OF:1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;2. THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS;3. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF INMATES OR FORMER INMATES AND THEIR FAMILIES OF PRISONS, YOUNG OFFENDERS' INSTITUTIONS, SECURE UNITS IN HIGH SECURITY PSYCHIATRIC OR OTHER HOSPITAL UNITS AND OFFENDERS OR FORMER OFFENDERS SUBJECT TO NON -CUSTODIAL COMMUNITY ORDERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM; AND4. TO PROMOTE LITERACY SCHEMES AND SIMILAR EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES.NOTHING IN THESE ARTICLES AUTHORISES AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOR CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH S.7 CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008

Area of benefit: IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £584,668 at the end of the financial year, which is below the target of £50,166 set for the same date. The filing notes that the charity is dependent on securing future funding and on continued creditor support to continue its operations. The trustees have admitted that the charity's going concern status is uncertain due to these dependencies.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nigel Bennings. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05906258 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Rigbye — CEO (source)
• Lucy de Groot — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Helen Arnold-Richardson — National Operations Director (source)
• Chris Morgan — Director of Business Support (source)
• Kevin Orchard — Director of People (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• DE GROOT, Lucy Manuela — director, appointed 15/04/2026not on trustee list
• MAGNAY, Diana Christina — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• SIESAGE, David Thomas — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• FOSTER DE NUNEZ, Loraine Victoria — director, appointed 10/12/2025not on trustee list
• PAGE, Rebecca Isha — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• SAUNDERS, Thomas Robert — director, appointed 03/05/2023on trustee list
• MARSTON, Joanna Nadine — director, appointed 14/09/2022on trustee list
• SETHI, Pankaj — director, appointed 15/12/2021on trustee list
• GODWIN, Ceri — director, appointed 28/07/2021on trustee list
• REID, Andrew Michael — director, appointed 02/09/2019on trustee list
• BATES, Brenda Rose — director, appointed 08/06/2019on trustee list
• PAYNE, William — director, appointed 01/09/2017on trustee list
• BENSTED, John Malcom — director, appointed 25/02/2016on trustee list
• MORGAN, Christopher David — secretary, appointed 28/07/2021

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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Michael Reid
• Brenda Rose Bates
• Ceri Godwin
• David Thomas Siesage
• Diana Christina Magnay
• Joanna Nadine Marston · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Bensted
• Loraine Victoria Foster De Nunez
• Lucy Manuela de Groot
• Pankaj Sethi
• Rebecca Isha Page
• Thomas Robert Saunders
• William Idris Griffin Payne · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CANNON CHARITABLE TRUST.

• CANNON CHARITABLE TRUST income £481k
• JOHNSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.1m
• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• SNOWDON TRUST income £871k
• THE BRANDON TRUST income £77.6m
• SHINE PINEHURST income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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