# Gordon Highlanders Association Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC002889
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** March 24, 1930
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC002889


## Contact

- **Address:** St Lukes, Viewfield Road, Aberdeen
- **Postcode:** AB15 7XH



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#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;,&#x27;any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The charity primary aim is to support veteran Gordon Highlanders, widows and children of Gordon Highlanders who have fallen on hard times. In addition the charity supports gatherings of veteran attendance at ceremonial and commemorative events, Armed Forces Day, Remembrance Sunday, battlefield tours, and a wide range of other local events to encourage comradeship and to support the mental well-being of aging veyterans. This will include support to veterans living on their own.

**Objectives:** The Trust hereby established shall exist for the following purposes, and have the following objects and aims namely:- (1) To foster esprit-de-corps and to keep alive by reunions and meetings the comradeship which was always so strong among officers, warrant officers non-commissioned officers and men (all hereinafter collectively called &#x27;members&#x27;) of the Regiment which was formerly known as The Gordon Highlanders (hereinafter called &#x27;the Regiment&#x27;) (2) To assist members of The Regiment who have through no fault of their own fallen on hard times. (3) To assist the widows and children of deceased members, but excluding any widow or children of any of us. (4) To ensure that all pensioners and veterans of The Regiment are well cared for and to arrange for visits to members resident at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Erskine Hospital and the War Blinded Institution, Linburn: the Scottish Veterans&#x27; Residences (Whiteford House, Rosendael and the Murray Home). the Thistle Foundation (Wighton House), Edinburgh. the Flanders House in Glasgow. the Blesma House in Crieff: and the Royal Star and Garter Home in Surrey.





## Areas of operation

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






