Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: -8

Support Score: 0

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Submission defaults: -10
No conflicts policy: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -14

THE BRENTWOOD AND DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER

Brentwood and District Talking Newspaper provides a service for the blind and partially sighted in the area. Every week a digest of news from the local paper is recorded and sent to our listeners on computer memory sticks. We also produce a periodic audio magazine - 'Sounds of Brentwood' - and a recording from the council's own magazine 'Vision'.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There have been multiple defaults for filing returns
This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/01/21	*	£3	£1	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/01/20		£1	£1	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/01/19	*	£2	£1	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/01/18		£1	£2	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/17	*	£1	£2	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/16		£5	£2	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/15		£3	£2	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/14		£2	£1	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/13		£2	£1	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/12		£6	£2	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/11		£2	£2	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/10	*	£2	£4	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/09		£3	£1	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/08		£4	£2	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/07		£6	£5	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/06		£7	£10	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/05		£8	£13	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/01/04		£13	£11	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 46 years

www.BDTN.org.uk

enquiries@bdtn.org.uk

01277215956

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Essex,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

ANTHONY CHARLES MANN Appointed: 2012

DAVID MINNS (Chair)

DAWN LILIAN WHITE

GERTRAUD RICE Appointed: 2018

PETER JOHN MAYO, Other trusteeship: BRENTWOOD THEATRE TRUST LIMITED,

STEPHEN PORTER

SUSAN ELIZABETH STEVENS, Other trusteeship: MOUNTNESSING VILLAGE HALL,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/02/1978, number: 274880

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission

Filing Record

18 returns made; AR21: 100 days late, AR19: 48 days late, AR17: 114 days late, AR10: 34 days late,

Main office

Brentwood Borough Council
Town Hall
Ingrave Road
Brentwood
CM15 8AY

Objectives

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 TAPES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRENTWOOD AND DISTRICT

Data Sources