# St John Episcopal Church Pittenweem - Bishop Low Trust Fund: Pittenweem

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC001447
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Part of:** [General Synod Of The Scottish Episcopal Church](/sc/SC015962) (SC015962)
- **Registered:** Jan. 1, 1902
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC001447


## Contact

- **Address:** 31 Beacon Court, Craws Nest Court, Anstruther
- **Postcode:** KY10 3FP



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of religion&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To support the mission and ministry of St John&#x27;s church, Pittenweem, by providing accommodation for our clergy, welcoming visitors, pilgrims, artists and members of the local community into the sacred quarter of Pittenweem and by conducting worship in St Fillan&#x27;s Cave, which is open to the public on payment of a nominal charge.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;

**Objectives:** (A) for the payment of all expenses of management of the trust. (B) for the following charitable purposes:- (i) to provide support for the ministry of St Johns Episcopal Church: Pittenweem (Scottish Charity number SC010982) (hereinafter referred to as &#x27;the Church&#x27;) in its engagement with the wider community of the East Neuk of Fife. In the event of the Church ceasing to exist, to provide such support to such other Church within the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Scottish Charity number SC017654) (&#x27;the Diocese&#x27;) providing ministry in the geographical areas currently covered by St Johns. In the event that no such Church exists, to provide support for the Diocese in its provision of ministry within the geographical area covered by the Diocese. (ii) for the conservation, maintenance, repair, renewal and improvement of the cave, the group of historic buildings and their environs belonging to the Trust, and their fittings, fixtures and furnishings. and (iii) to provide the Trust&#x27;s heritable properties for use by the Community in East Fife. For the avoidance of doubt, the heritable properties include the buildings owned by the Trust, the cave, the precinct and the grassed area between the Gate House and the Erskine Burial Plot.  (C) WITH THE PROVISO THAT should the Trustees consider.- (a) that these charitable purposes have at any time become incapable of being fulfilled for any reason including changes in social and economic circumstances and changes in law. or (b) that the fund has been reduced at any time to an amount which in the opinion of the trustees is such that the purpose of the Trust cannot be fulfilled. or (c) that it is expedient for any other reason, Then the Trust shall be wound up and the Trustees shall pay, conveyor make over the fund to such body or bodies or funds, charitable in law as the Trustees in their sole discretion think fit.





## Geography

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






