COTSWOLD VALE TALKING NEWSPAPER

Registered charity 1049409 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COTSWOLD VALE TAKING NEWSPAPER, CVTN

We record, onto CDs or memory sticks, audio versions of our local newspaper The Gazette and other local interest recordings and distribute them in the surrounding district to blind or partially sighted listeners and those whose incapacity makes reading a strain. We also produce quarterly magazine recordings and are starting to produce local audio history recordings too. Run by volunteers

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE BLIND, OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED, OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN, BY THE PROVISION OF AUDIO RECORDINGS WITH CONTENT OF LOCAL INTEREST

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£7k
Latest spending
£5k
Registered
1995

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Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 28/03/2024, 28 days after the 29/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/04/2025£7k£5k
30/04/2024£3k£4k
30/04/2023£5k£4k
30/04/2022£1k£3k
30/04/2021£2k£3k

Common questions

Who funds COTSWOLD VALE TALKING NEWSPAPER?

Funders whose own accounts filings name COTSWOLD VALE TALKING NEWSPAPER as a grant recipient include THE ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATIONFY2022£5kGrants approved in year

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund31/07/2025£500Running Costs for Cotswold Vale Talking Newspaper