01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC024910
- 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
- AB39 3XH
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
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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
The objects of the Association are to relieve the blind, or the partially sighted, or those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, by the provision of recorded tapes or tactile reading matter and to do all such things as may from time to time be incidental or conducive to the attainment of the foregoing object and which may now or hereafter be deemed charitable.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | £595 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £475 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 2 July 2025 |
| 5 April 2024 | £885 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £88 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 3 August 2024 |
| 5 April 2023 | £71 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £155 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 11 December 2023 |
| 5 April 2022 | £725 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £447 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 6 October 2022 |
| 5 April 2021 | £225 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £262 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 11 March 2022 |
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
- 3 Toucks Cottages, Stonehaven
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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