Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 5

No PartB

Mainly female board: -1

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 4

OWN BOOKS

Own Books is a book donation project that helps children and young people, without books, to have their own books to keep or share at home. The project aims to advance literacy & a love of reading in children & young people through the free provision of books in the home. Through a series of art making and storytelling workshops, we aim to encourage and inspire literacy, creativity & imagination.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/12/23	£16,730	£15,279	£1,451	8
31/12/22	£1,035	£7,159	£-6,124	8
31/12/21	£19,044	£5,961	£13,083	7

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

www.ownbooks.co.uk

OwnBooksForChildren@gmail.com

07816382503

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Own Books Inspires
£10,000	24/09/2021	The group will use the funding to provide a range of creative activities for children. This will improve levels of mental health and wellbeing.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Own Books Core Costs
£1,000	13/04/2021	Towards annual running costs.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALISON MOIRA SHAW MA TD Appointed: 2020

JULIE DE BASTION BFA HONS (Chair) Appointed: 2020

JOHN LATHAM Appointed: 2020, Other trusteeship: HENLEY IN ARDEN GUILD HALL TRUST,

JUDITH LYNN LINDLEY Appointed: 2020

JULIA GIBSON Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/07/2020, number: 1190573

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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Filing Record

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

24 CASTLE ROAD
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
B95 5LS

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY DISTRIBUTING AGE APPROPRIATE BOOKS TO SCHOOLS ACROSS ENGLAND AND WALES, AND BY PROVIDING ARTS AND CRAFTS WORKSHOPS FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION.

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