OSCR Scottish charity profile

Fife Society For The Blind

Known as seescape

ActiveCharity number SC001354
Registered19 March 1996
Main locationFife
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC001354
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
15
Postcode
KY7 4NT

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Seescape is dedicated to supporting people with sight loss across Fife. Our mission is to help individuals live independently, reduce social isolation, and improve quality of life and wellbeing. We achieve this by providing personalised assessments, assistive technology, benefits and employment advice, befriending schemes, mobility training, and social groups. Our services are tailored to each person’s needs, delivered by a skilled team and supported by volunteers. We work closely with local partners and funders to ensure our clients have access to the resources and opportunities they need to thrive.

Charitable purposes

  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

To relieve the needs of persons suffering from blindness or visual impairment and in particular (a) to provide such employment. services and resources as may be appropriate to assist such persons in developing independence in the areas of work, travel, communication and living skills and to remove the barriers created by sight loss and thereby enable such persons to carry out tasks independently and safely and (b) to provide and/or assist in the provision of mechanisms directed towards determining the needs of such persons and to ensure that the services available from public agencies and others reflect those needs. (2) To advance education and, in particular (a) to assemble and provide information about the services available to persons suffering from blindness or visual impairment and that in such a way as to enable such individuals to make informed choices in relation to such servic es and (b) to increase public knowledge and awareness of visual impairment and associated issues through the provision of training, education and advice.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£802,578£726,0091518 December 2025
31 March 2024£678,291£677,6941515 October 2024
31 March 2023£621,303£646,5131519 October 2023
31 March 2022£712,508£853,8291518 November 2022
31 March 2021£795,883£649,9531513 December 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Unit H, Newark Road North, Glenrothes, Fife
Website supplied to OSCR
www.seescape.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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