Calibre Audio

Registered charity 286614 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CALIBRE, CALIBRE AUDIO LIBRARY · also registered in Scotland as SC051461 (OSCR)

Calibre Audio brings the pleasure of reading to enrich the life quality and opportunities for people of all age groups with any print disability by providing access to audio books and content, and to raise awareness of related issues affecting such people

Objects

The Charity's Objects are to enrich the life quality and opportunities for people of all age groups with a print disability by providing access to audio books and content, and to raise awareness of related issues affecting such people.

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £237,108 for the year, driven by lower-than-anticipated legacy income and reduced fundraising capacity. However, total funds increased significantly to £2,681,286 due to a non-cash revaluation gain of £2,475,576 on land and buildings. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources to meet obligations for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. 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
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01701585

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery — “With generous support from:” (source page)

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.

• COUTINHO, Melissa Louise — director, appointed 22/09/2026on trustee list
• ACHILLEA, Kyriaki — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• STEVENS-HOARE, Miles Edward — director, appointed 06/07/2023on trustee list
• ALDOUS, Robert Patrick Peter — director, appointed 21/07/2020on trustee list
• NEAD, Howard David — director, appointed 21/07/2020on trustee list
• GODBER, John James — director, appointed 02/05/2019on trustee list
• KEMP, Anthony Raymond — secretary, appointed 18/03/2020

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~21.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Howard Neadchair
• JOHN JAMES GODBER
• Kyriaki Achillea
• Melissa Coutinho
• Miles Edward Stevens-Hoare
• Robert Aldous

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LISTENING BOOKS.

• LISTENING BOOKS income £1.3m
• THE AUDITORY VERBAL CENTRE income £1.2m
• Liquid Listening income £168k
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• CELEBRATE VOICE income £146k
• LEWISHAM SPEAKING UP income £180k

Side by side with its peers

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