# Faculty Of Advocates 1985 Charitable Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC012486
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** July 23, 1985
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC012486


## Contact

- **Address:** The Signet Library , Parliament Square, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH1 1RF



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#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 primary purpose of the Trust is to pay or apply the free annual income of the Trust Fund at the discretion of the Trustees to or for the benefit of widows, widowers, children or former dependents of deceased members of Faculty who by reason of poverty, indigence, illness, disability or age are in need of relief or support. If in any year income is left over after the primary purpose has been served the Trustees have a discretion to pay over the balance for the benefit of any living members of Faculty who by reason of disability, illness or age are permanently incapacitated from practice and by reason of their condition are in need of relief or support, also for any spouse, child or other dependent of such living members who are in need of relief or support.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;

**Objectives:** for the benefit of any one or more ofsuch widows, widowers, children or former dependants of deceased members of the Faculty of Advocates as are by reason of poverty, indigence, illness, disability or age in need of relief or support





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas







