# The Royal Observatory Edinburgh Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC013784
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Jan. 17, 1980
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC013784


## Contact

- **Address:** Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory,, Blackford Hill,, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH9 3HJ
- **Website:** http://www.roe.ac.uk/



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Ultimately the purpose of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh Trust is to advance education, science and scholarship. The principal means by which it seeks to achieve these ends are (i) to inspire and inform the public through stimulating an interest in astronomy and related sciences and (ii) more specifically to promote the public understanding of the work carried out by the institutions occupying the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site and the history and heritage of these institutions. In particular it seeks to preserve and encourage both public and scholarly interest in the heritage of the Observatory site. It also encourages more general public interest in, and understanding of, astronomy and related sciences. It furthers these aims by, inter alia, runing projects aimed at, or providing equipment for use by, the public, and by organising both public lectures and more specialist meetings for scholars.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** 4 The objectives for which the The Royal Observatory Edinburgh Trust (hereinafter &#x27;the organisation&#x27;) is established are ultimately to benefit the public by advancing education, science and scholarship. The means by which it pursues these objectives are: 4.1 to inspire and inform the public through stimulating an interest in astronomy and related sciences. 4.2 to promote the public understanding of the work carried out by the institutions occupying the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site and the history and heritage of these institutions. 4.3 to foster conservation of, and public interest in, the heritage of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site and the historic artefacts and archives associated with the site. and 4.4 to encourage and facilitate scholarly study of the history of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site and the scholarly use of the library, archives and historic artefacts associated with the site.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland







