NATIONAL NUMERACY

Registered charity 1145669 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q19655104 · Wikipedia

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN MATHEMATICS AND NUMERACY.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided text is a Document Activity Report from a secure portal and does not contain any financial accounts, trustee reports, or narrative statements regarding the charity's financial health, reserves, or operations. Consequently, no facts regarding financial health can be extracted.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National Numeracy (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).

• Barratt Redrow Foundation — “From 2025, the Barratt Redrow Foundation has kindly committed to providing vital funding and volunteer support to expand National Numeracy’s…” (source page)
• Capital One — “They are the start-up funder for National Numeracy’s Corporate Volunteering Programme, funding partner for the charity’s latest numeracy and…” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 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 (78% 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: 9.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Perdita Fraserchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Lynne McClure · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dipesh Patel
• Graham Keniston-Cooper
• John Ball
• Karolina Joynathsing · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mary Gregory
• Paul Coffey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Christopher Mark Linton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandra Bowker CBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: 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

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Charities like this

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• THE SIMMONDS FOUNDATION income £69k
• GREATER READING NEPALESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £50k
• WITHINGTON WALLS income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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