THE BOOK TRADE CHARITY

Registered charity 1128129 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£911k

Latest spending

£1.1m

Registered

2009

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

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

Total income

£911k

Total spending

£1.1m

Cost of raising funds

£69k

Reserves (reported)

£256k

Employees

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

Jonathan Nowellchair
Ann Veronica Woodhall · trustee of 1 other charity
David Neale
Emily-Jane Taylor
Ian Chapman
Jeremy Brinton
Meryl Halls

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£911k	£1.1m
31/12/2023	£1.5m	£1.2m
31/12/2022	£838k	£1.0m
31/12/2021	£633k	£1.0m
31/12/2020	£1.3m	£1.2m

Common questions

Who funds THE BOOK TRADE CHARITY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE BOOK TRADE CHARITY as a grant recipient include OLD POSSUM'S PRACTICAL TRUST, THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
OLD POSSUM'S PRACTICAL TRUST	FY2023	£10k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£6k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£5k