Charity Details

Scottish Commission For Learning Disability

SC032846Registered charity from 27 February 2002

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Notes:

This SCIO was incorporated on 23 June 2014 as a result of the conversion of a charitable company (Company number: SC223667, Company name: Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability).

Charity Information:

The Name the Charity is Known By SCLD, Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities

Address Clockwise
Savoy Tower 77 Renfrew Street
Glasgow

Postcode G2 3BZ

Website www.scld.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

The SCIO's purposes are to support the development and delivery of learning disability strategy in Scotland in order to promote and realise the rights of people with learning disabilities as equal citizens by finding new, better and inclusive ways to improve their lives. The SCIO will work with agencies, professionals, people with learning disabilities and their carers to deliver these purposes by: 4.1 facilitating engagement with agencies, professionals and practitioners and providing a resource for the entire learning disability delivery sector in Scotland; 4.2 being a gateway to evidence and practice and an information hub about what works through various means of engagement including, but not limited to, the following activities: 4.2.1 sharing information and knowledge exchange about good practice; 4.2.2 providing opportunities for reflective learning; 4.2.3 facilitating conversations between stakeholders including commissioners, providers, advocates, people with learning disabilities and carers; 4.2.4 offering consultancy and advice on service design and policy development; 4.2.5 supporting and evaluating pilot interventions and delivery projects; 4.2.6 promoting coproduction and the involvement of people with learning disabilities and carers; and 4.2.7 commissioning projects to support the development of learning disability strategy and policy in Scotland.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

SCLD's vision is of a Scotland where people with learning disabilities live, full, safe and loving and equal lives. We influence the development of policy, practice and legislation and are are respectful, inclusive, collaborative and pioneering. SCLD's focus is on Human rights, leadership and evidence.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 23 Jun 2014

Previous Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Previous Constitutional Form Date: 27 Feb 2002

Main Operating Location: Glasgow City

Number of Staff: 18

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the promotion of equality and diversity", "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"

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 Mar 2021	£822,639	£807,408	07 Dec 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£903,456	£810,605	21 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£944,252	£990,962	07 Dec 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£1,160,915	£1,066,566	04 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£1,039,236	£1,008,118	25 Nov 2025	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
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
Kenneth	Watt
Jan	Savage
Iain	Nisbet
Michael	Cunningham
Fiona	Whelan
Marion	Giloolly
Ann	Dougan
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