# Ballast Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC008790
- **Status:** Removed
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Dec. 16, 1987
- **Removed:** July 3, 2025
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC008790


## Contact

- **Address:** 180 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G2 5SG
- **Website:** http://www.ballasttrust.org.uk/



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#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:** The charity provides financial support of the Archive Service Unit and the Centre for Business History in Scotland. It assists with locating and surveying records of historical interest and promotes the preservation and efficient organisation of business records.

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

**Objectives:** (a) the financial support of the Unit and the Centre by way of gift, grant, loan, guarantee or such other form of financial assistance as the Trustees shall consider appropriate for the advancement or benefit of the Unit and the Centre. (b) generally for the preservation and efficient organisation of business records including without prejudice to the foregoing:- (i) to assist the Unit and the Centre in locating and surveying records of historical interest and the preservation and rescue of records in danger of destruction. (ii) the selection, sorting, classification and listing of records prior to their preservation in pUblic repositories. (iii) the support of bodies active in the preservation and publication of business records such as the Business Archives Council of Scotland. the Scottish Industrial Heritage Society. the Scottish Records Association. Local Authority Archives. (c) generally for the benefit of any charitable funds, societies, organisations and schemes having objects similar to those of the Trust and also for the benefit. of The Aggregate Foundation or its successor.





## Geography

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






