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Mrs Elizabeth Honeyman Gillespie Trust- Medical Fund

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC011027
Status
Active
Registered
Aug. 14, 1911
Legal form
Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Address

Address
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
9 Haymarket Square
Edinburgh
EH3 8FY

Activities

'It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations'

'the advancement of health'

The trustees provide funding to others to give lectureships called 'The Honyman Gillespie Lectureships'.

Objectives: The said sum of £30,000 and to apply the free income of the same, or, in their discretion, the capital, or to accumulate the income or partially along with the capital, and apply the income or capital of the accumulated amount, and that for the purpose of founding or contributing to found such new School of Medicine, and, failing any subsequent and more detailed expression of my intention, my wish is that such School of Medicine shall be established in such part of the United Kingdom as my Trustees after advising with Surgeon-General Gordon, Honorary Surgeon to the Queen, and, Abiathar Wall, Esquire, Member of the Royal College, England think fit, and shall embrace, as well as medical studies, the teaching of Homoeopathy and other new medical discoveries, and in which School the practice of Vivisection shall be entirely prohibited. and in the event of my death before executing such separate Deed as aforesaid, I empower, my Trustees, with the view of duly carrying out my intentions herein generally expressed, and of promoting the success of said School, to frame and establish a Constitution therefor, and to pay the said funds and accumulations over to the general governing body thereof, so to be constituted, with such powers and directions as they may think proper,

Geography

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Nov. 30, 2025 £7,293 £7,462
Nov. 30, 2024 £7,745 £6,833
Nov. 30, 2023 £7,129 £6,080
Nov. 30, 2022 £6,448 £5,636
Nov. 30, 2021 £5,936 £6,634