OSCR Scottish charity profile

Highlands And Islands Tape Service For The Blind And Disabled

ActiveCharity number SC014792
Registered4 June 1984
Main locationHighland
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC014792
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
IV15 9RT

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Providing a talking newspaper service for blind and disabled listeners. The service has been suspended since lockdown in March 2020.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

to provide for the blind, the partially sighted, and those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain (a) books, magazines and other material recorded on tape and/or in such other form as may be appropriate from time to time. (b) such other services as may be beneficial to the blind, partially sighted and disabled and as the Committee may agree from time to time.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£3,766£0025 June 2025
31 March 2024£0£0023 December 2024
31 March 2023£10£201030 June 2023
31 March 2022£1,000£477030 June 2022
31 March 2021£5£2,969030 November 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
Glentyan, Kempfield Court, Dingwall
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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