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Caithness Seal Rehab & Release

SC052004Registered charity from 13 September 2022
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address Windhaven
Brough
Thurso
Caithness
KW14 8YE
Postcode KW14 8YE
Website https://www.caithness-seal-rehab-release.co.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
Purposes 4 The organisation's purposes are: (a) The advancement of education, with the teaching of what species of seals are along the Caithness coastline, their habitats, the behaviours and how we can protect them. (b) The saving of marine mammal lives, in particular Pinnipeds, by rescuing them if warranted and uplifting them to a safe environment for rehabilitation. (c) The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science, by recording and monitoring seal populations already present and those that are rescued & released. (d) The advancement of environmental protection or improvement, by monitoring vulnerable areas, feed availability and pups born. (e) The advancement of animal welfare. (f) The rescue, protection, treatment, rehabilitation and release of sick or injured Pinnipeds.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Caithness Seal Rehab & Release is the only seal rehabilitation centre in Caithness & Sutherland. We cover a vast area along the whole of the east coast down as far as Tain. We cover the whole of the north coast as far along as Durness, and then down the west coast as far as Ullapool. We also receive pups from the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Lewis. We work together with BDMLR and the SSPCA. Members of the public come across a seal pup on the beach, they contact us direct or BDMLR or the SSPCA. One of our volunteers will go out and assess/examine the pup to see if it needs to come into our care. Caithness Seal Rehab & Release, the hospital, officially opened its doors on the 1st November 2022. Since opening the hospital doors, we have admitted 80 seal pups, both grey and common seal pups. In addition to this we have monitored and relocated seal pups if necessary. The number of pups is increasing every year mostly down to human disturbance, though bad weather does play its part.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 13 Sept 2022
Main Operating Location: Highland
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "the advancement of environmental protection or improvement", "the advancement of animal welfare"
Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"
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
01 Dec 2023 £35,143 £15,637 28 Mar 2024 Yes
01 Dec 2024 £31,782 £27,695 07 Jul 2025 Yes Download
01 Dec 2025 30 Mar 2026 No
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
PHILLIP BOARDMAN
ANDREW BROWNLOW
ANGELICA FERRO
CLARE BOARDMAN
PROFESSOR JOHN FYFE
IVOR THOMAS
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