# Mrs Jane Allans Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC010392
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** April 27, 1914
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC010392


## Contact

- **Address:** c/o Nelson Gilmour Smith, Mercantile Chambers, 53 Bothwell Street, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G2 6TB



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The trust was originally set up to provide accommodation for poor old people and poor girls at a residential home., however the home was taken over by the Free Church of Scotland, which resulted in the objectives of the trust being widened to provide assistance to the underprivileged.  This is achieved by providing grants to other charities, where the income is derived from investments held.

**Objectives:** The prevention and relief of poverty. The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.





## Areas of operation

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






