# READING DISPENSARY TRUST

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 203943
- **Other names:** TRUSTEES OF THE READING DISPENSARY TRUST
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Other
- **Registered:** Sept. 26, 1983
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=203943


## Contact

- **Address:** Reading Dispensary Trust, 16 Wokingham Road, Reading
- **Postcode:** RG6 1JQ
- **Phone:** 0118 926 5698
- **Email:** theclerk@readingdispensarytrust.org.uk
- **Website:** www.readingdispensarytrust.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** THE PURPOSE OF RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY IN CASES OF NEED PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE BOROUGH OF READING AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM BY PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERING OR ASSIST THE RECOVERY OF SUCH PERSONS IN SUCH CASES BUT ARE NOT READILY AVAILABLE TO THEM FROM OTHER SOURCES.

**Activities:** Grants for the benefit of individuals generally on application by Doctors, Nurses, Social Workers and Voluntary Organisations when statutory provision cannot be used.Activity is restricted to helping people who live within a 7 mile radius from the centre of Reading who are sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped or infirm.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations
- **What:** The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** READING AND DSITRICT
- Reading
- West Berkshire
- Wokingham





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **Jeremy Moreton** | Chair | May 16, 2023 |
| Anne Ballard |  | May 10, 2016 |
| Dr David Horne |  | Jan. 14, 2020 |
| JEAN MARION TURTON |  |  |
| Mark Hallett |  | May 11, 2021 |
| Michele Vale |  | July 19, 2019 |
| Ruth Helen Hampton |  | Oct. 14, 2025 |
| Sally Utting |  | April 9, 2024 |
| Steve Pollard |  | July 12, 2022 |




