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Hammermen Society

Also known as: Paisley Hammermen Society

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC002007
Status
Active
Registered
July 7, 1890
Legal form
Unincorporated association

Address

Address
9 Leabank Avenue
Paisley
PA2 8BQ

Contact

Website
paisleyhammermen.org
Website screenshot

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals','It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations'

'any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes'

Since the abolition of exclusive privileges of trade during the 19th century the Society has become a charitable organisation with the objective of providing financial support to deserving persons and other relevant projects.

Objectives: THAT IS TO SAY the said Persons Subscribing Hammermen, Clockmakers Burgesses and Inhabitants within the said Burgh CONSIDERING that in all Trades and Incorporations there and indigent and necessitous persons that are without means to supply their outward necessity AND CONSIDERING also that the most proper and effectual means for applying such indigent persons and preventing increase of their numbers is by persons of one craft entering into a Society and collecting a common Purse whereby poor and indigent Children of any person of said united craft may be brought up and put to Trades as age or inclination may lead them, and as shall be thought most advantageous for them by the Representatives of the said Craft and that aged, poor and indigent persons may be supplied as meed may require HAVE THEREFORE and for preventing several abuses in the said Trade conform to the Acts made or to be made by the Bailies and Council in their favour,

Areas of operation

Main operating location
Renfrewshire
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
April 5, 2025 £15,961 £22,190
April 5, 2024 £17,456 £26,790
April 5, 2023 £17,010 £17,916
April 5, 2022 £20,618 £27,175
April 5, 2021 £8,206 £19,678