# The Gordon Highlanders Museum and Regimental Trust Fund

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC007311
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Nov. 12, 1965
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC007311


## Contact

- **Address:** The Gordon Highlanders Museum, 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 advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#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 principal activity of the Trust is the Museum telling and preserving the history of the Gordon Highlanders. The Museum has also made a determined effort to support the intangible cultural heritage of the North East and Scotland with its development as a very successful venue for Highland bagpipe recitals and displays on the Highland roots of the regiment. The Trust also ensures the delivery of welfare support to ex-Gordon Highlanders and their dependants, working alongside our sister charity (The Gordon Highlanders Association) to ensure that local Gordon Highlander Association groups are helped as required. The Trust also supports the 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland with important loans of silver, paintings and property so that it, as the successor unit to The Gordon Highlanders, has items appropriate to its history.

**Objectives:** The prevention and relief of poverty. The advancement of education. The advancement of, arts, heritage, culture, or science. The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. Any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the other preceding purposes.





## Areas of operation

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






