Registered charity · Shrewsbury
The West Shropshire Talking Newspaper
- 10 trustees
- Income £2k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Winifred Mary PascoeChair · since 2014
- Alan John CopplestoneTrustee · since 2021
- Christopher John LemonTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Stephen Leigh BristowTrustee · since 2019
- Gwendoline Mary CoxTrustee · since 2022
- Lieselotte ClarkTrustee · since 2024
- Lindsay RowlandsTrustee
- Michael Peter WallerTrustee · since 2014
- Paul Edward Maynard PascoeTrustee
- Stephen Rennie StewartTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Disability
- Where
- Shropshire
- Website
- www.wstn.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1976
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2k£9k
- 2024£4k£10k
- 2023£5k£10k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£9k
- 2021£6k£8k
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS AS DEFINED BY THE COPYRIGHT (VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON) ACT 2002 AND TO THOSE PERSONS AFFECTED BY SOME OTHER INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY THAT MAKES READING A STRAIN OR IMPOSSIBILITY, BY THE PROVISION OF RECORDED NEWS AND INFORMATION.(FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF CONSTITUTION
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Winifred Mary Pascoe Chair since 2014
- Alan John Copplestone since 2021
- Christopher John Lemon since 2021
- Dr Stephen Leigh Bristow since 2019
- Gwendoline Mary Cox since 2022
- Lindsay Rowlands
- Lieselotte Clark since 2024
- Michael Peter Waller since 2014
- Paul Edward Maynard Pascoe
- Stephen Rennie Stewart
Trustees past 6 years
- Winifred Mary Pascoe Chair since 2014
- Dr Stephen Leigh Bristow since 2019
- Michael Peter Waller since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Winifred Mary Pascoe Chair since 2014
- Alan John Copplestone since 2021
- Christopher John Lemon since 2021
- Gwendoline Mary Cox since 2022
- Lindsay Rowlands
- Lieselotte Clark since 2024
- Paul Edward Maynard Pascoe
- Stephen Rennie Stewart
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Stephen Leigh Bristow since 2019
- Michael Peter Waller since 2014
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
- 504996
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTIUTION ADOPTED 23RD FEBRUARY 1976 AS AMENDED 25TH APRIL 1990AS AMENDED ON 18/05/2015
- Contact on the register
- 01743364726 · wstn@btconnect.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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