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Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - REACH
£36,000	24/11/2021	Visibility Scotland's 'REACH' project aims to ensure that anyone living with a visual impairment in Scotland has easy access to support and services, regardless of their location, mobility, or other ....more Visibility Scotland's 'REACH' project aims to ensure that anyone living with a visual impairment in Scotland has easy access to support and services, regardless of their location, mobility, or other barriers. This project is achieved through 2 strands, REACH IN and REACH OUT.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - SwitchedOn
£4,984	17/05/2021	Detailed information not yet available.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	26/03/2021	Children and Families Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Children Young People and Families Project
£201,858	25/11/2020 35	This group will use the funding to expand their provision of a holistic package of support information and activities to children and young people between the ages of 5-25 years living in Scotland ....more This group will use the funding to expand their provision of a holistic package of support information and activities to children and young people between the ages of 5-25 years living in Scotland who have a visual impairment. The group will also provide support for families carers and wider support networks. The project will involve 600 people over three years.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Dumfries & Galloway Confident Connected Communities Project
£21,275	23/11/2020	Requesting a contribution towards the overall cost of the Confident Connected Communities Project in Dumfries & Galloway. This project provides help, support and information to people living ....more Requesting a contribution towards the overall cost of the Confident Connected Communities Project in Dumfries & Galloway. This project provides help, support and information to people living with a visual impairment at a local level across the region, focusing on those most isolated and distant from services.
Foundation Scotland - Support
£9,500	31/03/2020	To contribute to the continuing work of supporting people with sensory loss across Wigtownshire, through locally based Hubs and home visits.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Confident Connected Communities
£30,000	28/11/2018	To provide community based support services to people living with sight and/or hearing loss throughout Dumfries & Galloway. To establish local hubs across four areas throughout the region, along ....more To provide community based support services to people living with sight and/or hearing loss throughout Dumfries & Galloway. To establish local hubs across four areas throughout the region, along with developing our home visiting services to focus on those people who are housebound.
National Lottery Community Fund - Connected Confident Communities (CCC)
£123,993	27/11/2018 36	This group will use the funding to establish local community support hubs and continue delivering their home visit and peer support service for adults living with sensory loss in Dumfries & ....more This group will use the funding to establish local community support hubs and continue delivering their home visit and peer support service for adults living with sensory loss in Dumfries & Galloway. The project aims to bring those with sensory loss together to share experiences, increase their knowledge about services available to them and enable them to better manage their sensory impairment.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Let's Get Digital
£10,000	03/04/2017	Participants will be blind or partially sighted older people residing in any of their 13 target LAAs. Basic Digital Skills training will be delivered in small groups or 1-2-1 covering a number of ....more Participants will be blind or partially sighted older people residing in any of their 13 target LAAs. Basic Digital Skills training will be delivered in small groups or 1-2-1 covering a number of topics. Training will be delivered locally through Peer Support Groups, specific to the needs of the person and will use either their own technology or we will lend a tablet for participants to practice on and help them to decide what to buy. As part of this training, the team will demonstrate alternative technology to broaden their knowledge and options in using their new digital skills. Let's Get Digital will underpin all of their services for older people; the training will roll out across all projects to ensure an additional layer of skills development opportunities for service users and support for staff, along with volunteer skills development.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Dumfries and Galloway Project
£50,000	25/11/2015	This project will support people living with a visual impairment in the Dumfries and Galloway region, so they feel less isolated and more connected to their communities, more informed and better able ....more This project will support people living with a visual impairment in the Dumfries and Galloway region, so they feel less isolated and more connected to their communities, more informed and better able to self-manage their condition.
National Lottery Community Fund - Children and Families Service
£441,844	11/03/2015 60	Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - STV WEST - Lets Get Digital
£34,772	05/12/2013 12	This project will expand the group's current services, allowing them to run ten 6 week group practical training sessions for people with visual impairment on using IT technology for daily activities. ....more This project will expand the group's current services, allowing them to run ten 6 week group practical training sessions for people with visual impairment on using IT technology for daily activities. The sessions will look at activities such as reading, shopping on-line, managing finances and benefits on-line and the social aspect of technology.
National Lottery Community Fund - OPALS (Older People Active Lives Sensory)
£243,286	14/08/2013 36	This project will provide specialist targetted support to older people who have sight loss as their primary sensory impairment. The project will promote independence in daily living through three new ....more This project will provide specialist targetted support to older people who have sight loss as their primary sensory impairment. The project will promote independence in daily living through three new distinct elements (volunteer guides, group training sessions and a resource for carers) this will increase their confidence in accessing local services, promote safe living at home and equip carers to provide appropriate support through awareness of the issues of sensory loss.

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Directors (7)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 01/03/1989, number: SC009738
• Registered at Companies House on 01/03/1989, number: SC116522

Filing Record

Main office

2 Queens Crescent, Glasgow, G4 9BW

Objectives

(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.