# Peter Coats&#x27; Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC007478
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** June 7, 1940
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC007478


## Contact

- **Address:** c/o MacRoberts LLP, Capella, 60 York Street, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G2 8JX



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of animal welfare&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The trustees have invested the capital via brokers and payments are made from net revenue income to such charities and necessitous persons primarily in the Paisley area.  A percentage of the fund is restricted to fund Youth Groups.

**Objectives:** The Trust was formed in similar lines to the charitable portion of the Brough Trust of Paisley.





## Areas of operation

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






