# Carnegie Hero Trust Fund

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC000729
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Statutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)
- **Registered:** Nov. 10, 1909
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC000729


## Contact

- **Address:** Andrew Carnegie House, Pittencrieff Street, Dunfermline
- **Postcode:** KY12 8AW
- **Website:** www.carnegiehero.org.uk



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#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:** The Hero Fund was established in 1908 to recognise acts of heroism and provide welfare support and financial assistance, if necessary, to people who have suffered injury, or to the families of people who have been killed in the heroic endeavour to save human life in peaceful pursuits in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Channel Isles and the surrounding waters.  Once a case of heroism is recognised a financial assessment is undertaken and, if appropriate, grants are awarded according to need. Grants may continue to be awarded or re-introduced throughout a beneficiary’s lifetime subject to individual circumstances.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;

**Objectives:** To recognise, support and where appropriate provide financial assistance to injured civilian heroes and their families and the partners and children of heroes who have lost their own lives in the United Kingdom or Ireland whilst attempting to save the life of another.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Fife
- **Geographical spread:** Scotland and other parts of the UK







