VOICE OF THE LISTENER & VIEWER

Registered charity 1152136 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VLV

VLV works to represent UK citizen and consumer interests in broadcasting and speaks for listeners and viewers on the full range of broadcasting issues. We use independent expertise to champion quality and diversity in programming, respond to consultations, write policy briefings, run events and conferences and work for public service broadcasting that informs, educates and entertains.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED: (A) FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL THE FORMS AND ASPECTS OF BROADCASTING, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY: (I) THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDY, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF BROADCASTING IN ALL ITS ASPECTS AND PARTICULARLY ITS SUBJECT MATTER, ITS ROLE IN SOCIETY AND ITS TECHNIQUES;(II) THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF BROADCASTING AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND (B) FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH MANNER AS IS CHARITABLE BY PROMOTING THE CONTINUANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF HIGH STANDARDS IN BROADCASTING, BOTH TECHNICAL AND ARTISTIC, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gravesham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £84,758 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees note that funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has ended and identify funding as a 'very major challenge', warning that work may need to be reduced significantly unless other sources are found. Despite these risks, the trustees confirm that adequate resources remain available to continue activities and maintain the charity as a going concern.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04407712 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• JAY, Helen — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
• DIXON, Catherine Freda — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
• SABRY, Hesham Samir — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Catherine, Professor — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
• JACK, Allan — director, appointed 29/11/2023on trustee list
• CHARLTON, Toni — director, appointed 08/07/2021on trustee list
• GORDON, Peter Stanley — director, appointed 30/11/2016on trustee list
• DIXON, Mary — director, appointed 18/11/2014on trustee list
• BROWNE, John Colin Clarke — director, appointed 26/11/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN BROWNEchair
• Allan Jack
• Andrew Board
• Catherine Freda Dixon
• Helen Jay
• Hesham Sabry
• Mary Dixon
• Peter Stanley Gordon
• Professor Catherine Johnson
• Professor Sylvia Margaret Harvey
• Toni Charlton

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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