READ FOR GOOD

Registered charity 1130309 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as READATHON · also registered in Scotland as SC041036 (OSCR)

Read for Good's aim is the advancement of education of children and young people in the UK, by the promotion of reading for pleasure and associated literacy skills; and the advancement of citizenship, and the provision of relief to disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UK, BY THE PROMOTION OF READING FOR PLEASURE AND ASSOCIATED LITERACY SKILLS; AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP, AND THE PROVISION OF RELIEF TO DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UK.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted free reserves stood at £1,193,781, which includes a notified but unreceived legacy donation of £282,000. The Trustees report a robust financial position despite planning for deficits in the next two years to fund programme delivery and evaluation. Cash reserves were £945,150 at year-end, with no external debt held by the charity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hazlewoods LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 06895421

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Read For Good (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.

• ORCHARD, Kevin Alan — director, appointed 16/05/2025on trustee list
• BESSENT, Emma Louise — director, appointed 02/01/2024on trustee list
• WHITTY, Siobhain Margaret — director, appointed 02/01/2024on trustee list
• SHIELDS, Amanda Louise — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• REGAN, Paula — director, appointed 07/12/2021on trustee list
• BOLTON, Rachel — director, appointed 24/01/2020on trustee list
• WEST, Helen Mary — director, appointed 05/04/2019on trustee list
• EVERALL, Anne Margaret — director, appointed 05/04/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Siobhain Whittychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Shields
• Anne Everall
• Emma Bessent
• Helen West
• Kevin Alan Orchard
• Paula Regan
• Rachel Bolton

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 SCHOOLREADERS.

• SCHOOLREADERS income £940k
• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• READING AND EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY income £3k
• BOOKMARK READING CHARITY income £4.1m
• THE READER ORGANISATION income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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