Swansea and Gower Talking Magazine

The object of the Association is to relieve the blind, or the partially blind, or those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, by the provision of recorded media.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined - in Practice Swansea and Gowerton

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2026, it had income of £692 and spent £2,668.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 40%, from £493 in the year to 31 August 2022 to £692 in the year to 31 August 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 386% of its income in the year to 31 August 2026. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Sylvia DallimoreChairAppointed 8 October 2014
• Jonathan Lawrence DyerAppointed 8 October 2025
• Leslie John WantAppointed 5 November 2018
• Lynette Ann HillAppointed 8 October 2025

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

508242

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

5 January 1979

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 20 NOVEMBER 1978 as amended on 18 Oct 2023

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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• 360Giving open grants data
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