BRADFORD TALKING MAGAZINES LTD

Registered charity 1077122 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRADFORD TALKING MAGAZINES

Based at 11-12 Eldon Place, Bradford BD1 3AZBTM works with people who cannot access the written word : people who have a visual impairment, people with learning disabilities, people who are deaf and any person who cannot access the written word. Information produced in a wide range of formats: audio and braille: EasyRead: British Sign Language as well as a multitude of different languages.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN BY ENABLING SUCH PERSONS TO ACCESS INFORMATION BY MEANS OF AUDIO OR TACTILE MATTER

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £111,038 for the year, resulting in unrestricted free reserves being in deficit by £6,524, which is significantly below the stated policy target of three to six months of expenditure. To address cash flow challenges and funding losses, the charity secured a £100,000 bridging loan secured on its building, with repayment extended to 2027. Despite these financial pressures, the trustees remain confident in the organization's ability to continue trading as a going concern for at least twelve months from the balance sheet date.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03749034 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BTM (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SPICER, David — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• GRISAG, Steven — director, appointed 24/11/2022on trustee list
• RALPH, Julie Ann — director, appointed 09/04/2020on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Matloob — director, appointed 08/04/1999on trustee list
• NAQVI, Imtiaz — director, appointed 08/04/1999on trustee list
• INGHAM, Joanna Susan — secretary, appointed 31/08/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steven Grisagchair
• David Spicer
• IMTIAZ NAQVI
• JULIE ANN RALPH
• MATLOOB HUSSAIN

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BLACKPOOL FYLDE AND WYRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND.

• THE BLACKPOOL FYLDE AND WYRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• THE LEEDS SOCIETY FOR DEAF AND BLIND PEOPLE income £295k
• GALLOWAY'S SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £1.6m
• WEALDEN TALKING NEWS income £15k
• EQUALITY TOGETHER income £1.2m
• THE SUNDERLAND AND NORTH DURHAM ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £216k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.