UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1154264 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WLF

We are dedicated to transforming the lives of the world?s most disadvantaged children by focusing on literacy and education. We implement sustainable programs which aim to raise literacy standards and give individuals every possible chance to receive a quality education. Promoting and teaching literacy in early childhood years is not only key to success at school but also later in life.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT (AS THOSE TERMS ARE UNDERSTOOD IN CHARITY LAW) BY:(1) PROVIDING AND SUPPORTING PROGRAMMES FOR THE PROMOTION OF LITERACY SKILLS IN PLACES OF NEED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD;(2) COLLABORATING WITH PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS WORKING TO IMPROVE LITERACY; AND(3) ASSISTING THOSE WORKING TO IMPROVE LITERACY, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH RESOURCES, CONTACTS WITH OTHERS IN THE FIELD, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN SKILLS AND EXPERTISE IN IMPROVING LITERACY.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £49,137 are below the trustees' stated policy target of three months of core activity support. The charity reported a surplus for the year, but total expenses exceeded total turnover, resulting in a decrease in net assets from the previous year.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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
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• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08475669

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — World Literacy Foundation (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.

• KAY, Andrew — director, appointed 05/04/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW KAY
• Darryn Keneally
• Dr Don Green
• Dr Tony Cree
• Henry Warren
• Julia Paterson
• Samantha Gordon

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Bristol City · Colombia · Cornwall · Derbyshire · Ghana · Kent · Kenya · Leicester City · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORLD BOOK DAY LIMITED.

• WORLD BOOK DAY LIMITED income £1.3m
• THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST income £14.3m
• WORLDREADER income £100k
• CHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT income £583k
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• THE ENGLISH AND MEDIA CENTRE income £706k

Side by side with its peers

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