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Company description
THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)”. Incorporated on 5 June 2006; registered for 20 years; registered office reported in VAUXHALL, LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 85600 · Educational support services.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 charity record, 10 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST
- Company number
- 05836486
- Company type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 2 total · 2 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
14 June 2026Next statement due
28 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Creative Reading Events for Prisoners at HMP Elmley
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-35f1dcd0-14a1-4ff1-aa66-93a7ff673cfd
- Supplier named in award
- National Literacy Trust
- Award value
- £12,265
- Contract period
- 1 October 2026 – 31 March 2027
- Published
- 1 October 2026
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-35f1dcd0-14a1-4ff1-aa66-93a7ff673cfd-2026-10-01T12:38:19+01:00
Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Literacy Through Art Courses for Prisoners at HMP High Down
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-ab40ae71-a50e-42df-b883-509d1bce383a
- Supplier named in award
- National Literacy Trust
- Award value
- £17,256.60
- Contract period
- 8 August 2026 – 31 March 2027
- Published
- 14 August 2026
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ab40ae71-a50e-42df-b883-509d1bce383a-2026-08-14T15:06:53+01:00
Home Learning Environment
Hartlepool Borough Council · ocds-b5fd17-c9b84b06-3a36-442d-9d82-987094e6e67a
- Supplier named in award
- NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST
- Award value
- £34,530
- Contract period
- 8 April 2024 – 7 April 2027
- Published
- 21 May 2024
- Procedure
- Other - Exemption to contract procedure rules
- Main CPV
- 48000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-c9b84b06-3a36-442d-9d82-987094e6e67a-2024-05-21T15:30:20+01:00
Start for Life Programme - Early Words Together
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council · ocds-b5fd17-1066075c-f855-4ae8-bf0d-5dc6fab32b76
- Supplier named in award
- National Literacy Trust
- Award value
- £26,344
- Contract period
- 13 March 2023 – 12 March 2024
- Published
- 31 May 2023
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1066075c-f855-4ae8-bf0d-5dc6fab32b76-2023-05-31T15:59:08+01:00
Literacy Innovation Fund
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-30356eb7-1805-4d4c-a0ad-e5d1d670a934
- Supplier named in award
- The National Literacy Trust
- Award value
- £1,800,000
- Contract period
- 1 March 2023 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 20 December 2023
- Procedure
- Other - Light Touch Regime
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-30356eb7-1805-4d4c-a0ad-e5d1d670a934-2023-12-20T08:52:29Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
04 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 14 June 2017
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
05 Charity register
Charity Commission links
THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 3 October 2006
- Latest income
- £14,270,653
- Latest expenditure
- £14,396,859
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Education/training
- Children/young People
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- The General Public/mankind
We are an independent charity that transforms lives through literacy. We improve reading, writing, speaking and listening in communities where poverty is on the increase and literacy levels are low. Our research and analysis make us the leading authority on literacy and drive our interventions. Our work is focused on critical moments in literacy development when we can make the greatest impact.
Source details and official record →This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
06 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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07 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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08 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Early Words Together Programme
London Borough of Haringey · updated 25 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Oracy for Careers Project (SP44)
North East Combined Authority · updated 21 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Early Words Together Enhanced Training
London Borough of Bexley · updated 18 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Early Language Support
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council · updated 27 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Early Words Together 2-4 Year Olds
Newcastle City Council · updated 8 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
09 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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10 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
11 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
5 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
12 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
13 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.