# Lothiansound

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC002810
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Feb. 18, 1988
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC002810


## Contact

- **Address:** 4 West Camus Road, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH10 6RB
- **Website:** www.lothiansound.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To  prepare and send a weekly Talking Newspaper to blind and partially sighted persons in Edinburgh and Lothian

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;

**Objectives:** 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.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland







