DOORSTEP LIBRARY NETWORK

Registered charity 1158197 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity runs Doorstep Library projects sending volunteers to homes of children in disadvantaged areas to help them enjoy reading, read well, and to lend books. Parents are encouraged to contribute to their children's education, they are supported to access local services designed to help them and their children. The charity runs Doorstep Libraries in London.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income fell by 17% to £748,918 due to a challenging fundraising environment and a gap in the fundraising team, while expenditure decreased slightly to £683,364. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £221,663, which the trustees note are equivalent to 3.4 months of expenditure, satisfying their policy minimum of three months. The trustees confirm there is a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in business.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Doorstep Library Network (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 12.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ariana Frances Musiol Poole
• Asma Ali
• Dr Robert Barr
• Dushiyanthi Horti
• Laura Chesover
• Peter Warwick
• Sarah Jane Gresty

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · Hammersmith And Fulham · Lambeth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 DOORSTEP.

• DOORSTEP income £148k
• GRIMSBY AND CLEETHORPES AREA DOORSTEP income £1.2m
• CHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT income £583k
• DOORSTEP OF HULL income £2.2m
• THE CHILDREN'S LITERACY CHARITY income £902k
• SCHOOLREADERS income £940k

Side by side with its peers

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