Children's Book Project - Signed 2025 Accounts - Flipbook - Page 3
Foreword
Index
The past year has been a dynamic one for the Children9s Book
Project as we continue to tackle book poverty and strive to create
a fairer society, where every child is able to be the proud owner of
books they choose for themselves, and is introduced to the
transforming power of reading.
Foreword
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What we do
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Trustees9 report
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Our goal and strategy
8
Partnerships
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Activities
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Achievements
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Impact
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Financial review
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A sustainable, circular gifting model
Independent examiner9s report
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Statement of financial activity
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Our ambition is to create a sustainable model for the passing on
of pre-loved and surplus books to ensure every child has the
chance to have a favourite book of their own at home.
Balance sheet
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Statement of cash flows
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Our mission has an ever more urgent social imperative with
research from the National Literacy Trust published in October
2024 revealing that only 34% of children and young people are
reading for pleasure. Around one million children in the UK do not
own a single book of their own and at the same time, vast
numbers of perfectly good books are pulped or end up in landfill
each year. We address both problems at once, creating a route
that stops books becoming waste and redirecting them straight
into the hands of children who will treasure them.
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We encourage all families to donate books, we engage with
publishers to view every surplus title as a gift waiting for a reader,
and we help communities host book gifting events that spark a
lifelong love of reading.
Our bright yellow year
This year we shared our vision with the support of JCDecaux who
donated 200 billboard spaces nationwide in March for our bright
yellow inspiriffic campaign - with joyful illustrations generously
shared by Wonderbly - it championed the power of passing on
pre-loved books. This is a message now echoed across our
gifting boxes and overall communications.
We accelerated the impact of our work with a strong focus on our distribution. We centralised our operations
to support our Birmingham and Leeds hubs, launched 8Pop Up Hubs9 in Nottingham and Bristol and
distributed a record number of books thanks to an incredible network of over 700 donation points across the
UK.
Annual Report & Financial Statements for year ended 30 June 2025 |
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