# WELLINGBOROUGH AND DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 279556
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Other
- **Registered:** Jan. 1, 1980
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=279556


## Contact

- **Address:** 60 PRIORY ROAD, WOLLASTON, WELLINGBOROUGH
- **Postcode:** NN29 7SN
- **Phone:** 01933664655
- **Email:** trevor.handcock@talktalk.net
- **Website:** www.wdtn.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** TO RELIEVE THE BLIND, OR PARTIALLY BLIND, OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING IMPOSSIBLE OR A STRAIN, BY THE PROVISION OF RECORDED TAPE.

**Activities:** WTN provides listeners in Wellingborough, Rushden, Higham and surrounding villages with weekly local news and magazine on memory sticks. Qualification is inability to read ordinary news-type. Approx.120 Listeners. We also exchange magazine tapes with other TN's in our area (Npton-shire). We have recently changed from cassette tapes to memory sticks. Players are issued free of charge to members.

**Area of benefit:** WELLINGBOROUGH AND DISTRICT




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services
- **What:** Disability
- **Who:** People With Disabilities



## Areas of operation

- Northamptonshire



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £2335 | £886 | — | — |
| March 31, 2024 | £2262 | £662 | — | — |
| March 31, 2023 | £464 | £432 | — | — |
| March 31, 2022 | £1314 | £422 | — | — |
| March 31, 2021 | £11663 | £232 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **Graham Roland West** (Chair) — appointed June 15, 2017
- Anthony Paul Blunt — appointed Oct. 1, 2013
- CERA ANN WILKINS — appointed June 15, 2017
- CHRISTINE GEORGE — appointed Oct. 28, 2012
- LYNN SPARROW
- Michael Webb — appointed June 12, 2014
- SIMON JAMES BISGROVE
- SIMON TURNER