THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Sayer Vincent LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on National Literacy Trust's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST · parent
   1. Centre for Literacy in Primary Education · UK · charitable objects

Significant events

• “The past year has seen us launch Early Words Matter, our 5 year campaign to work with a quarter of a million children in our Hub areas, to support their early literacy and language.”
• “In 2024 we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the National Literacy Trust”
• “In November 2024 we published research which revealed that just 1 in 3 (34.6%) children and young people aged 8 to 18 enjoyed reading in their free time in 2024.”
• “In 2026 the National Year of Reading will be a massive government-backed campaign, mobilising all sectors of society in a common mission, to engage more and especially young people in reading, to boost their quality of life now and create new opportunities in their futures.”
• “May 2024 was a milestone moment for Libraries for Primaries, when Her Majesty the Queen opened the 1000th new school library as part of the campaign.”
• “the acquisition of the Centre for Learning for Primary Education as a subsidiary from 31 May 2025”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

10

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +18.4%

  £12,050,441 → £14,270,653

• Cash

  -19.4%

  £3,481,546 → £2,807,165

• Net assets

  -3.3%

  £3,830,668 → £3,704,462

• Employees

  +13.5%

  178 → 202

• Wages

  +16.7%

  £5,847,560 → £6,826,777

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers