Registered charity · Hertfordshire
The Watford and District Talking Newspaper for the Blind
- 7 trustees
- Income £2k (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
- Disability
- Where
- Hertfordshire
- Website
- www.watfordtn.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1977
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2k£442
- 2024£3k£563
- 2023£3k£932
Earlier years
- 2022£3k£3k
- 2021£2k£2k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE THE BLIND OR THE PARTIALLY BLIND OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN BY THE PROVISION OF RECORDED TAPES.
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
- Ian Charles Pankhurst Chair since 2020
- Iain Lamb
- Michael Cumbers
- MS DRU Brooks
- Marion Kay Cumbers since 2018
- Mark Seymour Davies since 2020
- Samrah Islam Jaffrey since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Ian Charles Pankhurst Chair since 2020
- Marion Kay Cumbers since 2018
- Mark Seymour Davies since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Ian Charles Pankhurst Chair since 2020
- Iain Lamb
- Michael Cumbers
- MS DRU Brooks
- Marion Kay Cumbers since 2018
- Mark Seymour Davies since 2020
- Samrah Islam Jaffrey since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- 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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 273014
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RULES ADOPTED 30 JANUARY 1977 AS AMENDED 13 JUNE 1992.AS AMENDED ON 03 JUN 2017
- Contact on the register
- 07500601129 · info@watfordtn.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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