Registered charity · Warwickshire
Rugby and District Talking Newspaper
- 4 trustees
- Income £136 (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
- Warwickshire
- Website
- www.rugbytalkingnewspaper.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1978
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£136£2k
- 2024£5k£3k
- 2023£1k£835
Earlier years
- 2022£2k£5k
- 2021£3k£287
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. IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE ASSOCIATION THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING POWERS: (A) TO TAKE AND ACCEPT ANY GIFTS OF PROPERTY WHETHER SUBJECT TO ANY SPECIAL TRUSTS OR NOT; (B) TO RAISE FUNDS AND TO INVITE AND RECEIVE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER BY WAY OF SUBSCRIPTIONS, DONATION AND OTHERWISE; PROVIDED THAT THE COMMITTEE SHALL NOT UNDERTAKE ANY PERMANENT TRADING ACTIVITIES IN RAISING FUNDS FOR THE SAID OBJECT AND (C) TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS AS SHALL FURTHER THE OBJECT OF THE ASSOCIATION.
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Barry Cockcroft CBE Chair since 2024
- Malcolm David French since 2022
- Sean Butterfield since 2015
- Simon Ainley since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Sean Butterfield since 2015
- Simon Ainley since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Barry Cockcroft CBE Chair since 2024
- Malcolm David French since 2022
- Sean Butterfield since 2015
- Simon Ainley since 2016
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
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 506989
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RULES ADOPTED 13 SEPTEMBER 1977
- Contact on the register
- 07793072889 · enquiries@rugbytalkingnewspaper.org
- 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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