01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC047192
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Operations cover all or most of Scotland
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 89
- Postcode
- EH11 1PZ
OSCR note: This charity has been established to replace (Scottish National Institution for War Blinded SC002652).
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Sight Scotland Veterans, formerly known as Scottish War Blinded, provides support to armed forces veterans affected by sight loss in Scotland to help them regain confidence, restore their independence and make new connections. The vast majority of veterans we support currently lost their sight after their time in service due to old age and conditions like glaucoma and macular degeneration. Only a very small number of veterans lost their sight during active service. We continually evolve our approach to reach every veteran in need by developing skills and resources for independent living, supporting individual needs, involving veterans with sight loss in shaping our services, campaigning for equal rights, funding visual impairment research, and innovating our services to meet changing needs.
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 makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
4 The assets of the SCIO shall be held and applied in such manner as the trustees think fit for any purposes which appear to them in their absolute discretion directed to the relief of visually impaired former members of United Kingdom armed forces, including persons who have served in the merchant navy or the nursing services in active service and their civil partners, spouses, widows, widowers and dependants if they are experiencing hardship.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £875,000 | £6,474,000 | 89 | 29 October 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £969,000 | £6,774,000 | 89 | 26 September 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £1,012,000 | £6,149,000 | 89 | 17 January 2024 |
| 31 March 2022 | £1,612,000 | £5,327,000 | 89 | 19 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £1,625,000 | £5,201,000 | 89 | 10 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
- 2A Robertson Avenue, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.sightscotlandveterans.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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