The Literacy Pirates Limited

Registered charity 1145115 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HACKNEY PIRATES, THE HACKNEY PIRATES LIMITED

The Literacy Pirates develops literacy, confidence and perseverance among young people who are falling behind at school and who have fewer opportunities. We do that through providing extra adult attention, the chance to work on real-world publishing projects and extra reading support. Activities take place in our unconventional out-of-school learning environments, in Hackney and online.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE IN THE UK IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY:- PROVIDING YOUNG PEOPLE WITH ONE-TO-ONE SUPPORT TO DEVELOP THEIR LITERACY AND CREATIVITY THROUGH THE PRODUCTION OF PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED CREATIVE PRODUCTS IN AN UNCONVENTIONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £21,507 for the year, though it maintained a surplus in its unrestricted funds. Per the trustees' report, the charity held free reserves of £566k, representing 6.2 months of cover against a revised policy target of 3–6 months of core operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (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
• Investing charity funds 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 07790039

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Literacy Pirates Limited (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.

• OGUNDIWIN, Oluwafunmbi Akinloye — director, appointed 27/11/2024on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Helene Ruth — director, appointed 27/11/2024on trustee list
• JOUNI, Chady — director, appointed 27/11/2024on trustee list
• LEVY, Daniel Chaim — director, appointed 27/11/2024on trustee list
• SALLOUM, Amanda Maria — director, appointed 27/11/2024on trustee list
• MLADINEO, Lea — director, appointed 27/11/2024on trustee list
• ALDIS, Philip John — director, appointed 20/03/2023on trustee list
• MCAUSLAN, Fiona Lesley Buchanan — director, appointed 07/06/2022on trustee list
• EXON, Melanie Jane — director, appointed 07/06/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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: 26.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Oluwafunmbi Akinloye Ogundiwinchair
• Amanda Maria Salloum
• Chady Jouni
• Daniel Chaim Levy
• Fiona Lesley Buchanan McAuslan
• Helene Ruth Williamson
• Lea Mladineo
• Melanie Jane Exon
• Philip John Aldis

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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
• UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION income £229k
• BOOKMARK READING CHARITY income £4.1m
• THE CHILDREN'S LITERACY CHARITY income £902k
• THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST income £14.3m
• ADULT LITERACY TRUST income £360k

Side by side with its peers

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