CHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT

Registered charity 1183092 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON CHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT, London Children's Book Project

Our object is to advance education of children up to age 14 by supplying books to those that would not otherwise be able to afford them, and by creating sustainable reading communities amongst targeted groups through the provision of regular inclusive book gifting events. Also to advance public education about environmental matters related to re-use & recycling of pre-loved children's books.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF BABIES, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 0-14 YEARS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY GIFTING GOOD QUALITY, RELEVANT, RE-HOMED BOOKS TO CHILDREN WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO AFFORD THEM, AND BY CREATING SUSTAINABLE READING COMMUNITIES AMONGST TARGETED GROUPS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF REGULAR INCLUSIVE BOOK GIFTING EVENTS.TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS RELATED TO RE-USE AND RECYCLING OF PRE-LOVED CHILDRENS BOOKS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 60% to £583k, while total expenditure rose by 91% to £478k, driven largely by increased staff costs. The charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £304k, which the trustees consider to be in line with their stated policy target of £278k.

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

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 — Children's Book Project (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 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 (100% 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: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann-Janine Murtaghchair
• Daniel Misra-Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Ann Norton
• Lisa Harrington
• Remi Baker
• Stacey Dobson

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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.

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 WORLD BOOK DAY LIMITED.

• WORLD BOOK DAY LIMITED income £1.3m
• ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN income £199k
• CHILDREN'S BOOK FEST - CHICHESTER CIO income £61k
• THE FEDERATION OF CHILDREN'S BOOK GROUPS income £52k
• KIDS MATTER income £892k
• CHILDREN'S CORNER PRE-SCHOOL COMMITTEE income £230k

Side by side with its peers

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