Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

COTSWOLD VALE TALKING NEWSPAPER 

We record, onto CDs or memory sticks, audio versions of our local newspaper The Gazette and other local interest recordings and distribute them in the surrounding district to blind or partially sighted listeners and those whose incapacity makes reading a strain. We also produce quarterly magazine recordings and are starting to produce local audio history recordings too. Run by volunteers
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
  • 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
30/04/23*£5£4£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/22£1£3£-1n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/21£2£3£-1n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/20£3£3£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/19£3£3£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/18*£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/17£4£4£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/16£4£2£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/15£4£7£-3£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/14£3£3£-1£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/13*£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/12£2£3£-1£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/11£1£3£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/10£5£3£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/09£4£3£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/08£2£3£-1£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/07£2£6£-4£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/06£4£7£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/05£2£2£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/04£2£3£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 29 years

www.cvtn.org.uk

lindahgreenwich@aol.com

01453544623

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Barnwood Trust - Gloucestershire Funders (Organisational & Group Funding)
£500 27/06/2022
Rebuild and redesign of website

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/09/1995, number: 1049409
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 33 days late, AR18: 88 days late, AR13: 13 days late,
Main office

7 Ferney
Dursley
GL11 5AB

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE BLIND, OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED, OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN, BY THE PROVISION OF AUDIO RECORDINGS WITH CONTENT OF LOCAL INTEREST

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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