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Description
(1) to acquire, hold and administer the whole of the property, assets, liabilities and affairs belonging to the incorporated association known as 'Visibility' which was established in the year 1859 under the name or title of 'The Society for Promoting Reading among the Blind', and which in 1861 became known as 'The Glasgow Mission to the Blind', and which in 1872 became known as 'The Glasgow Mission to the Outdoor Blind' and which in 1905 became known as 'The Mission to the Outdoor Blind in Glasgow and the West of Scotland', and then in 1966 became known as 'The Society for the Blind in Glasgow and the West of Scotland' (2) to ameliorate the conditions of and to relieve and care for persons who suffer sensory impairment residing within Glasgow and the former Counties of Lanark, Ayr, Argyll, Renfrew, Bute, Dumbarton, Dumfries and Galloway and such other areas as the Company may resolve to include within the sphere of its operation. and to provide services and other support to promote the welfare of persons with sensory impairment in the foregoing areas, either independently or in co-operation with other persons or bodies including government departments, local authorities and other organisations interested in promoting the welfare of those persons with sensory impairment. (3) to relieve those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, finance hardship or other hardship by assisting financially or supporting any charitable association formed for all or any of the objects of the Company and to promote or join in the promotion of any charitable company or companies for the purpose of carrying on any activity or business which the Company is authorised to carry on.
Also known as
- Visibility Scotland
OSCR Charity number
Registered
Postcode
G4 9BW
Website
Latest income
£748,261 (on )
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Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 0 inactive records, from 2 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC009738 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
Activities (OSCR)
- It carries out activities or services itself
Beneficiaries (OSCR)
- People with disabilities or health problems
Purposes (OSCR)
- The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Services for people with disabilities
D13
UK Charity Activity Tags
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Associations
AS
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Beneficiary group
BE
» People with disabilitiesBE200
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Health
HE
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Health
HE
» Health conditionHE200
» Hearing lossHE207
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Health
HE
» Health conditionHE200
» Visual impairmentHE215
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Social welfare
SW
» Individual povertySW105
Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
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1989-03-01 |
Registered as a charity |
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2017-03-31 | 668,082 | 953,437 |
2018-03-31 | 784,847 | 919,781 |
2019-03-31 | 673,204 | 1,076,919 |
2020-03-31 | 723,167 | 1,017,967 |
2021-03-31 | 752,769 | 877,995 |
2022-03-31 | 728,972 | 990,419 |
2023-03-31 | 748,261 | 1,037,557 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
Received 18 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.
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Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme 22/23 |
£8,656 | University of Strathclyde and GWSSB KTP 22_23 R1 | ||
R S Macdonald Charitable Trust | £36,000 | REACH | ||
Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations
ELHF: Connecting Communities Fund - Call 1 |
£9,020 | SwitchedOn | ||
Garfield Weston Foundation
Welfare |
£15,000 | Main Grants award | ||
R S Macdonald Charitable Trust | £21,275 | Dumfries & Galloway Confident Connected Communities Project | ||
Co-operative Group | £1,243 | Grant to Visibility Scotland | ||
Foundation Scotland
Kilgallioch Wind Farm Community Fund |
£9,500
11 months |
Support
Apr 2020 to Mar 2021 |
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Foundation Scotland
Kilgallioch Wind Farm Community Fund |
£10,000 | Visibility Wigtownshire | ||
R S Macdonald Charitable Trust | £30,000 | Confident Connected Communities | ||
The National Lottery Community Fund
Medium Grants Scotland |
£123,993
3 years |
Connected Confident Communities (CCC)
Jan 2019 to Jan 2022 |
Data source
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- Cabinet Office (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Co-operative Group (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Foundation Scotland (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Garfield Weston Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- R S Macdonald Charitable Trust (4 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (6 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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