READ EASY UK

Registered charity 1151288 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REUK

The object of the charity is 'to advance the education of the adult public in literacy'.Read Easy UK is an umbrella organisation that works to promote and support its model of volunteer-run, adult literacy 'groups'. Each locally-run, affiliated Read Easy group provides one-to-one reading coaching for adults with reading difficulties, using trained volunteer reading coaches.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE ADULT PUBLIC IN LITERACY.

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: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £78,817, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £129,449. Per the trustees' report, this level of reserves represents 4.05 months of operating costs, which falls within the stated policy target of three to nine months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 CE000307

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Read Easy UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Margaret Tincknellchair
• Caroline O'Connor
• Elizabeth Elsa Hopes
• Harriet Ayles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hayley Jean James
• Panagiota Koulouri
• Paul James Mugford
• Sara Anne Erasmus

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with READ FOR GOOD.

• READ FOR GOOD income £1.5m
• THE READER ORGANISATION income £4.6m
• SCHOOLREADERS income £940k
• ADULT LITERACY TRUST income £360k
• BOOKMARK READING CHARITY income £4.1m
• READ - THE READING AGENCY income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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