CHAPTER ONE (U.K.) LTD

Registered charity 1179625 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Chapter One, INNOVATIONS FOR LEARNING UK, INNOVATIONS FOR LEARNING UK LTD

At Chapter One, we want to create a world where all children have the literacy skills needed to thrive, so we provide one to one reading support at the time they need it most. We provide thousands of children across the UK with online reading volunteers, and also run early literacy intervention and book club programmes. Please visit our website to learn more about our work!

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE FIELD OF 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 · 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 the charity reported a net surplus of £188,470 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £1,816,178 and expenditure of £1,627,708. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves at year-end were £968,190, which is in excess of the Board’s stated target of four months' expenditure (£680,000). The auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 3 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CHAPTER ONE (U.K.) LTD (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Bell — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Seth Weinberger — Chair (source)
• Alex Green — Vice Chair (source)
• Zoe Pierre — Treasurer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sellafield Ltd — “We are launching in Warrington in January 2026, thanks to support from Sellafield Ltd, Amentum, Mott Macdonald and Cavendish Nuclear” (source page)
• Cisco Foundation — “Chapter One receives £56,250 grant from Cisco Foundation to enhance reading platform” (source page)
• Amentum — “We are launching in Warrington in January 2026, thanks to support from Sellafield Ltd, Amentum, Mott Macdonald and Cavendish Nuclear” (source page)
• Mott Macdonald — “We are launching in Warrington in January 2026, thanks to support from Sellafield Ltd, Amentum, Mott Macdonald and Cavendish Nuclear” (source page)
• Cavendish Nuclear — “We are launching in Warrington in January 2026, thanks to support from Sellafield Ltd, Amentum, Mott Macdonald and Cavendish Nuclear” (source page)
• Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation — “Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation and Chapter One announce winner of story competition” (source page)
• The Childhood Trust — “Chapter One to take part in The Childhood Trust’s Champions for Children campaign” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 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 (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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SETH WEINBERGERchair
• Alexander James Stuart Green
• Dr Lucy Clare Heady · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Lloyd
• Lisa Jane Hayes
• Marie Helen Broad
• SARAH BELL
• Teresa Kiely
• Zoe Amelia Pierre

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ADULT LITERACY TRUST.

• ADULT LITERACY TRUST income £360k
• ONE TO ONE CHILDREN'S FUND income £2.0m
• ONE TO ONE (ENFIELD) income £223k
• ONE FOOTSTEP income £546k
• BOOKMARK READING CHARITY income £4.1m
• THE CHILDREN'S LITERACY CHARITY income £902k

Side by side with its peers

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