Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -2

THE SOUTHEND-ON-SEA TALKING NEWSPAPER

Provides a free weekly audio recorded digest of local news, plus a regular magazine edition and a regular information bulletin, each distributed alternately every three weeks, to blind and partially blind listeners. Provided on usb memory stick, CD, via BWFB, Amazon Alexa and dialup telephone. A free usb memory stick player is also supplied where required

Analysis by Giving is Great

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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	Volun- teers
31/12/23	£5	£3	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/12/22	£2	£9	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/12/21	£22	£1	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/12/20	£1	£1	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/12/19	£5	£6	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/12/18	£4	£3	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/17	£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16	£3	£2	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15	£2	£3	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14	£4	£4	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13	£2	£3	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12	£1	£4	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11	£0	£1	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10	£0	£2	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09	£4	£2	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08	£1	£1	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07	£1	£1	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06	£2	£3	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	£1	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 44 years

http://southendtalkingnewspaper.org.uk/

southendtalkingnews@gmail.com

01702291642

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, Southend-on-sea,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Gender Split

BRYAN ROBERT ARTHUR WOODFORD

CHRISTOPHER RONALD DANDRIDGE Appointed: 2011

ERIC QUARMBY

JANET STANNARD Appointed: 2019

STUART JOHN HOBSON Appointed: 2023

SUE RICHARDS Appointed: 2024

JOHN ADRIAN GRIMES, Other trusteeship: THE ALBERT JONES CHARITABLE TRUST,

NIGEL JAMES GAYNER (Chair), Other trusteeships: ROSCA TRUST, SOUTHEND HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION,

ROGER SMITH Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: METHODIST CHURCH SOUTHEND AND LEIGH CIRCUIT,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/08/1980, number: 280590

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

9 Boundary Way
Shoeburyness
Southend-on-Sea
SS3 9QF

Objectives

THE PURPOSE OF RELIEVING THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED BY THE PROVISION OF RECORDINGS OF NEWS ANDOTHER MATERIAL ON USB MEMORY STICK, CD, VIA OUR OWN OR BRITISH WIRELESS FOR THE BLIND WEBSITES,AMAZON ALEXA OR DIAL-UP TELEPHONE, OR BY ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE MEANS POSSIBLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE SOUTHEND-ON-SEA

Data Sources