01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- Other
- Registered
- 5 March 1990
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 6 May 2025 – 5 May 2026
- Latest income
- £210
- Latest expenditure
- £562
- Gift Aid
- No
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- No
Public contact address: 2 MENDIP CRESCENT, BEDFORD, MK41 9EP
Website recorded by the regulator: www.bdan.org.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
We are all volunteers who record the local news on tape every week for blind persons. We read and record on a Monday evening and our listeners receive a tape the next day. We also send out a magazine on tape 4 times a year.
03 Official extract
Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 6 May 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 5 May 2026
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR26
- Reporting Due Date
- 5 March 2027
- Date Annual Return Received
- 15 August 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £210
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £562
- Fin Period Start Date
- 6 May 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 5 May 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 5 March 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 8 September 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £3,250
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £2,779
- Fin Period Start Date
- 6 May 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 5 May 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 5 March 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 11 February 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £341
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £1,237
- Fin Period Start Date
- 6 May 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 5 May 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 5 March 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 26 February 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £3,450
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £3,250
- Fin Period Start Date
- 6 May 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 5 May 2022
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Reporting Due Date
- 5 March 2023
- Date Annual Return Received
- 23 February 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £2,145
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £2,928
04 Official extract
Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Central Bedfordshire
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Bedford
- Welsh Ind
- No
05 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 306
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Services
- Classification Code
- 203
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- People With Disabilities
- Classification Code
- 104
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Disability
06 Official extract
Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- BEDFORD AND DISTRICT AUDIO NEWS
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- Standard registration
- Date Of Event
- 1990-03-05T00:00:00
07 Official extract
Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 13TH MAY 1988
- Charitable Objects
- TO PROVIDE RECORDED TAPES OF LOCAL NEWS AND MATTERS OF INTEREST FOR THE BLIND OR THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED OR THOSE WHO ARE TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY INCAPACITATED BY A DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN.
- Area Of Benefit
- BEDFORD AND DISTRICT
08 Official extract
Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Policy Name
- Volunteer management