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Registered charity · Lancashire

Rochdale Talking Newspaper

Rochdale Talking Newspaper is a registered charity (number 509117) based in Lancashire, governed by 4 trustees. Latest income £253 (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £253 (2025)
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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
Rochdale
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£253£639
  • 2024£138£523
  • 2023£8k£623
Earlier years
  • 2022£55£1k
  • 2021£602£426

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE BLIND OR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN, BY THE PROVISION OF:- (A) RECORDED TAPES (B) CASSETTE TAPE-RECORDERS AND SUCH OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION ON LOAN OR OTHERWISE AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMITTEE.

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

5y median 5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 4

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£253 latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
509117
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 2 AUGUST 1979 AS AMENDED 18 APRIL 1985 AS AMENDED 22 JANUARY 2004 .
Contact on the register
07714336516 · clare.soroka@sky.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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