OSCR Scottish charity profile

Bearsden And Milngavie Talking Newspaper Association (Beam)

Known as BEAM

ActiveCharity number SC015177
Registered7 September 1990
Main locationEast Dunbartonshire
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC015177
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G61 2DY

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The object of the Charity is to assist the blind, the partially sighted and those otherwise visually handicapped or labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading difficult, by the provision of recorded media or tactile reading matter. The principal activity is to record local newspaper news and other material onto media which beneficiaries can then listen to.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The object of the Association is to relieve the blind , the partially sighted, and those otherwise visually handicapped or labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, by the provision of recorded tapes or tactile reading matter.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£222£77602 December 2025
31 March 2024£60£691030 November 2024
31 March 2023£442£685015 December 2023
31 March 2022£0£179029 November 2022
31 March 2021£0£179030 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
24 Ferguston Drive, Bearsden
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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