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Registered charity · Chippenham

Chippenham and District Talking Newspapers

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £3k (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
Disability
Where
Wiltshire
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3k£2k
  • 2024£40£1k
  • 2023£1k£3k
Earlier years
  • 2022£4k£2k
  • 2021£3k£3k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF BLIND, VISUALLY IMPAIRED, DISABLED OR HOUSEBOUND PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY:-(A) PRODUCING AND PROVIDING FREE AUDIO TALKING NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMES AND INFORMATION PACKS THROUGH THE MEDIA OF AUDIO CASSETTE TAPES, COMPACT DISCS, COMPUTER PROGRAMMES OR ANY OTHER RELEVANT ELECTRONIC FORMATS;-(B) ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF THE EQUIPMENT REQUIRED BY LISTENERS TO ENABLE THEM TO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO PROGRAMMES PRODUCED AND SUPPLIED BY THE CHARITY;-(C) USING THE WORKING TITLES OF CHIPPENHAM TALKING NEWSPAPERS, MALMESBURY TALKING NEWSPAPERS OR ANY OTHER WORKING TITLES WHICH MAY BE APPROPRIATE AND LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE TO ENABLE THE CHARITY'S AUDIO PROGRAMMES TO BE EASILY IDENTIFIED AND RECOGNISED

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.

8 trustees on the board

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8

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

Health and social care 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£40 latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
271904
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 15TH JUNE 1976 AS AMENDED 6TH JUNE 1984 AND 26 FEBRUARY 2008
Contact on the register
01249659305
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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