THE COTSWOLD LISTENER

Registered charity 276631 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE TALKING NEWSPAPER FOR THE BLIND (THE COTSWOLD LISTENER)

Records and distributes a weekly talking newspaper and magazine on CD, memory stick and via website to approximately 165 visually impaired listeners in Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and North Cotswolds.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE BLIND AND THOSE WITH A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT OR A TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING DIFFICULT BY PROVIDING RECORDED MATERIALS.

Area of benefit: GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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: Cheltenham, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• June Denyse Mary Littlechair
• Adrian Holford Mr
• Anne Beech Mrs
• Julie Rogers
• Margaret Threadgold
• Marianne Eluned Gaston
• Nicola Rachel Elizabeth Goldsby
• Stuart McLean
• Susan Liptrot

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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