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Lothiansound

SC002810Registered charity from 18 February 1988
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 4 West Camus Road
Edinburgh
Postcode EH10 6RB
Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee
Website www.lothiansound.org.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
Lothiansound is established for charitable purposes only and specifically to relieve the blind or partially sighted or those labouring under temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, through the provision of news and information on audiotape, CD, memory stick, wireless, online, app, virtual assistant technology or other suitable medium. In furtherance of the above objects Lothiansound shall have the right to operate such facilities as are deemed necessary by the Executive Committee, and Lothiansound will seek to cooperate with any other body, whether statutory or voluntary, having objects which are consistent with the objects of Lothiansound. In this respect efforts will be made to initiate such cooperation.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The Charity is set up to provide news and information to listeners on a weekly basis using memory sticks and CDs
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association
Constitutional Form Date: 18 Feb 1988
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "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"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Dec 2021 £1,273 £4,470 16 Jun 2022 Yes
31 Dec 2022 £3,098 £4,074 26 Jun 2023 Yes
31 Dec 2023 £3,777 £5,686 20 Apr 2024 Yes
31 Dec 2024 £2,653 £4,648 30 Apr 2025 Yes Not published by OSCR
31 Dec 2025 No Annual Information due by 30 Sept 2026
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green   . If an annual return is late, the box is red   .
Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
First Name Last Name
Peter Alexander Bell
Elspeth Jean Brown
James Allan Sheach
James Power
Andrew Melville
Jane Prudence Mclaughlin
From 09 March 2026, OSCR is required by law to publish the names of a charity’s trustees as part of its Scottish Charity Register entry. We are also required to publish each charity’s annual report and accounts as received from this date, which may include the names of certain individuals. The only exceptions to publication are where a charity or one of its charity trustees applies for this information to be excluded, and OSCR is satisfied that publishing it would jeopardise the safety or security of a person or premises.

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From 30 June 2025, OSCR began collecting charity trustee information through OSCR Online. Providing this information is a legal requirement for all charities. The names of trustees will be published on the Scottish Charity Register from early 2026 to promote transparency and strengthen public trust in the sector.

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