# Mckerlie Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC009799
- **Known as:** McKerlie Bequest Fund
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Feb. 21, 1950
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC009799


## Contact

- **Address:** Glebehill, Church Lane, Wigtown, Dumfries &amp; Galloway
- **Postcode:** DG89HT



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To assist the vulnerable within the parish by providing financial support.  Names are selected by the parish ministers.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Older People&#x27;

**Objectives:** For payment out of the income of The McKerlie bequest Fund...(b) of small Annuities or grants, not exceeding £12 to any one person in any year, to aged and necessitous natives of Wigtownshire, to be selected by the Trustees in their absolute discretion (and whom they may select for benefit from the income of The McKerlie Bequest Fund, notwithstanding the recipient shall be possessed of some small private means.





## Geography

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







