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Registered charity · Aylesbury

Calibre Audio

The Charity's Objects are to enrich the life quality and opportunities for people of all age groups with a print disability by providing access to audio books and content, and to raise awareness of related issues affecting such people.

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2026)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.calibreaudio.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Calibre Audio
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£1.1m£1.4m
  • 2025£1.1m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2023£1.3m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.5m
Charitable objects

The Charity's Objects are to enrich the life quality and opportunities for people of all age groups with a print disability by providing access to audio books and content, and to raise awareness of related issues affecting such people.

Board analysis for researchers

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

4.7y median 6y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 7Education/training 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.

Tech and media 10Arts and leisure 1Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.1m latest income
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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.2 in 2020

26 from 43 in 2020
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
286614
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 FEB 1983 AS AMENDED 8 AUG 1989 AND 2 JUN 2006, NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25 JUNE 2010 AS AMENDED 13 OCT 2010 AND REGISTERED WITH COMPANIES HOUSE 20 OCT 2010 as amended on 27 Apr 2021 as amended on 27 Apr 2021 as amended on 27 Apr 2021 as amended on 27 Apr 2021 as amended on 01 Aug 2023
Companies House
Company number 01701585 · Active
Contact on the register
01296432339 · enquiries@calibre.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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