# The Meikle Foundation

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC009842
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Jan. 19, 1973
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC009842


## Contact

- **Address:** Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, 1 West Regent Street, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G2 1RW



## Activities

**Activities:** &#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 religion&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the saving of lives&#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 public participation in sport&#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;any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To allow payments of income or capital to, or for the benefit of, such charitable institutions, societies or organisations as the Trustees may in their absolute discretion may select.  Only appeals from registered charities will be considered. They donate predominately to Scottish based charities or charities with a Scottish connection, with a particular emphasis on the Fife and Aberdeen areas.  They donate to a wide variety of entities where a small donation which will make a significant impact

**Objectives:** For payment or application of the revenue of the Trust Fund or such portion thereof as the Trustees shall from time to time in their sole discretion think fit to such of the religious funds and charitable schemes and organisations specified in Schedule I appended hereto and for the benefit of such other religious funds and charitable schemes and organisations having their domicile or carrying on their work in Scotland or England and for such educational and cultural purposes and in the relief of poverty and assistance of socially inadequate persons in Scotland or England all as the Trustees shall in their sole discretion think fit and that in such shares and proportions (with express power to the Trustees to exclude any of the beneficiaries named in the said Schedule if they in their sole discretion shall think fit) and at such times as the Trustees shall in their sole discretion from time to time decide.





## Areas of operation

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






