The Book Aid Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Book Aid Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincoln. It was registered in July 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Book Aid Charitable Trust reported income of £273k and spending of £442k, spending 162% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £319k to £273k (-14%), an average of -3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Book Aid Charitable Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include House of Empowerment International Ministry (£273k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Lawrence, Eyam (£273k) and The Wiltshire Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel Fund (£273k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.