FIRST STORY LIMITED

Registered charity 1122939 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIRST STORY

First Story brings talented, professional writers into schools serving low-income communities to work with teachers and students to foster creativity and communication skills.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved 102% of its fundraising target and closed the year with a surplus, adding £40,091 to unrestricted reserves. The trustees report that the charity is on a better and more sustainable financial basis going forward, with unrestricted reserves of £395,400 sitting between the stated minimum and target levels. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and holds no defined-benefit pension deficit.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — First Story (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward James Baden-Powellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bobby Nayyar
• Carey Scott
• Chloe Holland
• Dina Mistry
• Dr SUSAN MARGARET HORNER
• Geraldine Badcock
• Hannah Louise Brown
• Lauren Shapiro
• Sarah Alexandra Marshall

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FIRSTSITE LIMITED.

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• COMMUNITY FIRST income £3.3m
• FUTURE FIRST ALUMNI LIMITED income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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