WALLINGFORD DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 296172 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We produce an audio version of our local weekly newspaper, The Wallingford Herald, and other community magazines. Volunteers meet each week to read articles onto digital media which are distributed the next day to up to 40 people with visual or reading difficulties. Each registered listener is provided by the charity with an audio player to listen the recorded news.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE ASSOCIATION IS TO RELIEVE THE BLIND, OR THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED, OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN, BY THE PROVISION OF RECORDINGS AND AUDIO EQUIPMENT. IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE ASSOCIATION THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING POWERS:-(A) TO TAKE AND ACCEPT ANY GIFTS OF PROPERTY (WHETHER SUBJECT TO ANY SPECIAL TRUSTS OR NOT), WHEN THE COMMITTEE IS SATISFIED THAT IT IS IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ASSOCIATION TO DO SO.(B) TO RAISE FUNDS AND TO INVITE AND RECEIVE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER BY WAY OF SUBSCRIPTION, DONATION OR OTHERWISE; PROVIDED THAT THE COMMITTEE SHALL NOT UNDERTAKE ANY PERMANENT TRADING ACTIVITIES IN RAISING FUNDS FOR THE SAID OBJECT.(C) TO SEEK AUTHORISATION FROM THE POST OFFICE TO USE THE FREE POSTAGE FACILITY AVAILABLE UNDER POST OFFICE REGULATIONS, AND, IF SUCH AUTHORITY IS GRANTED, TO USE THIS FACILITY FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF RECORDINGS TO THOSE PEOPLE TO WHOM THE REGULATIONS CURRENTLY APPLY.(D) TO DISTRIBUTE THE RECORDINGS BY MEANS OTHER THAN THE USE OF THE FREE POSTAGE FACILITY MENTIONED IN 2(C) ABOVE TO PEOPLE OTHER THAN THOSE COVERED BY THE POST OFFICE REGULATIONS RELATING TO THIS FACILITY.(E) TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS AS SHALL FURTHER THE OBJECT OF THE ASSOCIATION.

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.

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

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Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 03/02/2026, 3 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 06/03/2024, 35 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lynda Atkins DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mike Leader
• PETER SEYMOUR

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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