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Registered charity · London

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  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.listening-books.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Listening Books
Registered
1972

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2023£877k£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£896k£1.0m
  • 2021£867k£887k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE DISABILITY OR INCAPACITY, WHETHER PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY, ARISING FROM ANY SICKNESS, INJURY OR OTHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITION, IN PARTICULAR, BY THE PROVISION OF AN AUDIO BOOK LIBRARY SERVICE INCLUDING RECORDED LITERATURE AND OTHER MATERIAL, TOGETHER WITH EQUIPMENT FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF SUCH LITERATURE OR OTHER MATERIAL, INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM SUCH CONDITIONS.

Grants received

12 grants · £334,864 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

7 trustees on the board

10.3y median 8y
average tenure
29y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 7General Charitable Purposes 7

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 6Education 2Manufacturing 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.9 in 2021

10 from 12 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
264221
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/05/1972AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/01/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/03/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/06/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/04/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/06/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/07/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/10/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/01/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/05/2014
Companies House
Company number 01056004 · Active
Contact on the register
02074079417 · info@listening-books.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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