Registered charity (CIO) · Swindon
Talking News Federation
- 6 trustees
- Income £30k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Other Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland
- Website
- www.tnf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£30k£62k
- 2024£60k£51k
- 2023£87k£32k
Earlier years
- 2022£42k£27k
- 2021£26k£12k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS (THE “OBJECTS”) OF THE CIO ARE: 1) TO PROMOTE GOOD PRACTICE AND THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ITS MEMBER ORGANISATIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY THAT MAKES READING A STRAIN BY. A) TO SUPPORT REPRESENT AND DEVELOP THE WORK OF ORGANISATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHICH UNDERTAKE THE SYSTEMATIC PROVISION OF NEWS AND OTHER MATERIAL BY DIGITAL OR ANALOGUE TRANSMISSIONS (“TALKING NEWS ORGANISATIONS”) THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM. B) PROMOTING AND ASSISTING THE FORMATION OF TALKING NEWS ORGANISATIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
6 trustees on the board
- Michael James Wood Chair since 2025
- David John Beard since 2025
- Deborah Jenkins Harrison since 2024
- Dr Temidayo Akinwunmi since 2025
- Margaret Rona Grainger since 2025
- Richard Black since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Richard Black since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Deborah Jenkins Harrison since 2024
- Dr Temidayo Akinwunmi since 2025
- Margaret Rona Grainger since 2025
Portfolio (3)
- Michael James Wood Chair since 2025
- David John Beard since 2025
- Richard Black since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1185913
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 21 Oct 2019 as amended on 30 Sep 2020
- Contact on the register
- 03000 400 300 · enquiries@tnf.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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