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Director
Bill Dee
Council of Management
Julia Eccleshare
Zoe Richmond-Watson
C.T. Sinclair-Stevenson
Nick Forster
David O Neill
Gillian M Howarth
Chairman
Anne-Marie Williams
Treasurer
President
The Baroness Warnock DBE
Patron
Stephen Fry
Auditors
Jacob Cavenagh & Skeet
5 Robin Hood Lane
Sutton
Surrey SM1 2SW
Over my many years of connection with
Listening Books and particularly the time
when I have served as Chair, I cannot
remember a year when the charity has been
working at such capacity and this in a time
which is exceptionally challenging both economically and
technologically.
Our first priority must always be to meet our members needs
and it is wonderful to know that more people than ever before--
nearly 30,000--are benefiting directly from our service. What a
diverse group they are--ranging from those in primary school to
others under hospice care. In between are the many young
people accessing our educational titles through downloading or
streaming and more recently through their Educational Grids--
achieving the results they aspire to in exams and experiencing
the morale boost that accompanies success--as well as others
of all ages and circumstances contending with a range of
Review of the Year
A Word from Gillian Howarth, Chair