Charity Details

Talking Tandems

SC040774Registered charity from 20 August 2009

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Charity Information:

Address 5a Main Street
Hillend
Dunfermline
Fife

Postcode KY11 9ND

Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee

Website lesstephenson11wixsite.com

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

To encourage, facilitate and improve the health and well-being of people who are blind, partially sighted or have a dual sensory loss through participation in physical activities particularly but not exclusively in tandem cycling. b. To increase understanding and knowledge of the barriers facing people who are blind, partially sighted or have a dual sensory loss to public and voluntary sector organisations and, volunteers participating in the work of Talking Tandems.

Operations:

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

To provide cycling activities for the visually impaired. We have a range of Tandems and we bring out visually impaired cyclists on cycle runs of various milage twice a month. We have created a twinning arrangement with a similar group in France and we will be travelling to Montpellier in September 2026 to cycle.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association

Constitutional Form Date: 20 Aug 2009

Main Operating Location: Fife

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of health", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the advancement of public participation in sport", "the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended", "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	£3,021	£1,774	07 Oct 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£2,806	£3,315	06 Oct 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£9,852	£10,307	06 Nov 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£8,288	£4,316	22 Oct 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£3,993	£4,339	01 Dec 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
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
Felicity	Garvie
Les	Stephenson
Roy	Smith
Howard	Duthie
Marcel	O'Connor
Roy	Cochrane
Louise	McLeary
David	Ross
Keith	O'Donnell
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