ADULT LITERACY TRUST

Registered charity 1193300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALT

We seek to provide adults with one-to-one support to build skills and confidence in reading, as a complement to teaching in formal settings, to help break the cycle of exclusion and poor literacy.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS IN READING, WRITING AND OTHER LITERACY SKILLS.

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

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Registered contact address: Islington, 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 £139,512 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £232,003. The trustees consider it prudent to maintain reserves equating to at least three months of operating budget, noting that free reserves of £98,064 plus designated funds ensure sufficient resources for stable continuance.

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 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
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT ALAN GLICKchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander George Stevenson
• Andrew Sean Maguire
• Asisat Arinola Edeh CBE
• Daniel McLean
• David Canham
• Dinah Kathryn McLeod · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin Clark Walker
• Liam Rezende
• Nyasha-Tafadzwa Katsande
• Regina Everitt
• Tobias Gill

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• THE INTEGRATION TRUST LIMITED income £395k
• THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST income £14.3m
• ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN income £199k
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• THE ASCENSION TRUST income £983k

Side by side with its peers

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