WEALDEN TALKING NEWS

Registered charity 270183 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEATHFIELD AND DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION

Production and provision of audio editions of local newspapers to visually impaired. Production and provision of audio magazines to visually impaired. Facilities also used to convert written data to audio versions for other local charities, e.g. East Sussex Association for the Blind, Care for the Carers, etc.

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 MEDIA.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE HEATHFIELD AND DISTRICT

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased from £42,434 to £190,565 during the period, driven by a significant transfer of £65,000 into a designated fund for new business premises. The charity reports sufficient net assets to continue planned operations for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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 4 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wealden Talking News (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMANDA SIZER BARRETT
• Amanda Foster
• Dianne Steele
• Fiona Blyth
• Graham Baldwin
• Heather Halit
• Mike Hollis
• RICHARD ARTHUR FOSTER

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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 BRADFORD TALKING MAGAZINES LTD.

• BRADFORD TALKING MAGAZINES LTD income £182k
• GALLOWAY'S SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £1.6m
• THE BLACKPOOL FYLDE AND WYRE SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £2.3m
• RUDOLF STEINER PRESS income £243k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED income £397k
• BIRKDALE TRUST FOR HEARING IMPAIRED LTD income £226k

Side by side with its peers

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