THE BOOK TRADE CHARITY

Registered charity 1128129 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The welfare charity of the book trade, providing financial support and accommodation for people who have worked in the UK book trade, in publishing, distribution or bookselling, for more than one year. Housing at Kings Langley, Herts, provides a range of subsidised accommodation in 36 dwellings; the average age of residents is about 64. Grant support, regular or one-off can be offered across UK.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £165,172 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £256,072, which is below the stated policy target of approximately £503,000, a reduction attributed to significant investment in the capital redevelopment of Bookbinders Cottages.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Book Trade Charity (BTBS) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Ernest Hecht — “He was awarded an Ernest Hecht grant which he says saved his family from homelessness.” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (57% 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: 7.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Nowellchair
• Amanda Jane Ridout
• Ann Veronica Woodhall · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Neale
• Emily-Jane Taylor
• Jeremy Brinton
• Joanna Louise Denton
• Lucy Hale
• Maria Vassilopoulos
• Meryl Halls
• Oliver Wallace Munson
• Philip Goodson
• Sharika Sharma · 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.

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 THE LICENSED TRADE CHARITY.

• THE LICENSED TRADE CHARITY income £29.8m
• WOKING HOMES income £2.9m
• BRADFORD TRADESMEN'S HOMES income £237k
• YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON income £8.8m
• LANGLEY MARISH UNITED CHARITIES income £179k
• SUPPORT THE CHARITY WORKER income £991k

Side by side with its peers

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