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Caithness Seal Rehab & Release

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC052004
Status
Active
Registered
Sept. 13, 2022
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
Windhaven
Brough
Thurso
Caithness
KW14 8YE
KW14 8YE

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'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'

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.

Beneficiaries: 'No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: 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.

Geography

Main operating location
Highland
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Dec. 1, 2025 £25,220 £30,537
Dec. 1, 2024 £31,782 £27,695
Dec. 1, 2023 £35,143 £15,637