BRINGING WORDS TO LIFE LIMITED

Registered charity 1151661 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Bringing Words to Life (BWtL) is a literacy charity, founded by a journalist and author. After a lengthy pilot study in a primary school, the engagement of the children through this alternative platform encouraged the development of BWtL. The intention is to engage as many young people as possible with the processes, skills, and attitudes they need to enhance their literacy.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE RESIDING IN GATESHEAD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY DEVELOPING KEY LITERACY SKILLS WITH THE AIM OF ADVANCING EDUCATIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS AND LIFE SKILLS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £3,274 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £62,415 primarily from grants. Free reserves were £3,357, which the trustees confirmed is approximately in line with their policy target of three months' unrestricted expenditure.

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 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
• 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 08366070

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.

• WHITE, Lauren Elizabeth — director, appointed 25/02/2025on trustee list
• BARNETT, Jeremy Peter Jon — director, appointed 24/01/2017on trustee list
• KHALIL, Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/09/2014on trustee list
• BARNETT, Emma Margaret — director, appointed 18/01/2013on trustee list
• JACKSON, Stuart — director, appointed 18/01/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• STUART JACKSONchair
• ELIZABETH HELEN KHALIL
• EMMA BARNETT
• JEREMY BARNETT
• Lauren Elizabeth White

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

Operates in: Durham · Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Northumberland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORD OF LIFE.

• WORD OF LIFE income £333k
• UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION income £229k
• WORD FOR LIFE TRUST income £55k
• WOLLOW - THE WORLD OF LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD income £40k
• TRUTH BE TOLD: STORYTELLING FOR LIFE income £94k
• BOOKS BEYOND WORDS income £473k

Side by side with its peers

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