# Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC006547
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Oct. 31, 1988
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC006547


## Contact

- **Address:** Home HQ SCOTS DG, The Castle, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH1 2YT
- **Website:** www.scotsdg.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To collect, document, preserve, exhibit and interpret material evidence and associated information on the Regiment for the public benefit. The museum sets out to display, in a form attractive to the general public and illuminating to the expert, the story of the Regiment and the many honours and distinctions which it and its forbears have won and to promote the Regiment today.

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

**Objectives:** 2.1 The Trustees shall hold and apply the Trust Property in such manner as they think fit for any purposes which appear to them in their absolute discretion directed to the advancement of education, the arts, heritage, culture or science. 2.2 Without prejudice to the generality of clause 2.1, the Trustees shall seek: 2.2.1 to acquire (by purchase, gift, bequest, loan or otherwise) and maintain a collection of objects and artefacts of significance to the Regiment and people associated with the Regiment (the “Collection”). 2.2.2 to provide for the protection of the objects and artefacts comprising the Collection from deterioration, damage, loss, accidental destruction or unauthorised disposal. 2.2.3 to establish, promote and run a museum for the public display of the objects and artefacts comprising the Collection. 2.2.4 to allow members of the public to explore the Collection for inspiration, learning and enjoyment. 2.2.5 to contribute to the education of members of the public by providing information about the objects and artefacts comprising the Collection and engaging with them to assist interpretation. and 2.2.6 to publicise the Collection and, if the Trustees think fit, loan all or part of the Collection to other organisations for exhibition or research, always providing that the safety and security of the Collection is not thereby endangered.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** One or a few bases or facilities serving people who come from a broad area







