# The Murray Usher Foundation

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC000266
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Oct. 6, 1977
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC000266


## Contact

- **Address:** Beechwood, Tongland Road, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway
- **Postcode:** DG6 4UR



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;,&#x27;any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Supporting matters associated with the cultural, educational, and public benefit of Gatehouse of Fleet, encompassing the Parishes of Girthon and Anwoth, and promoting the interests of the town and its people.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;,&#x27;Other charities or voluntary bodies&#x27;

**Objectives:** The objects of the Murray Usher Foundation are so far and so far only as the same may be legally charitable and are to expend the Trust Fund from time to time and whether income or capital on such public charitable or benevolent purposes as the Trustees in their absolute discretion may decide or to make payment to such Charitable bodies or organisations which are constituted for Charitable purposes only and so long as such other charitable bodies or organisations have been accepted by the Board of Inland Revenue or other competent authority as a body established for Charitable purposes only for the purposes of taxation.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Dumfries And Galloway
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood






