# Queensberry House Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC017328
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** July 12, 1996
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC017328


## Contact

- **Address:** Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH3 8HE
- **Website:** www.queensberryhousetrust.org



## 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 health&#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 funds originate from the winding up of Queensberry House Hospital which closed in 1996.  The Trustees hold these funds for the purposes specified in Clause Second of the Declaration of Trust(as amended), namely that they should be applied for such charitable purposes only within the United Kingdom as are within the meaning assigned to the term &#x27; charitable purposes&#x27; in the context of Section 505 and 506 of the ICTA 1988 or any subsequent amendment thereto,.  The Trustees have power to apply the capital and income : where need is known: where a donation from the Trusts would make a significant difference to the charity concerned: having regard to the locality in which the former Queensberry House Hospital was located and taking account of historic links

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Other charities or voluntary bodies&#x27;

**Objectives:** The Trustees shall hold the Trust Funds for such charitable purposes as the Trustees in their sole discretion may decide, including, but not exclusively, the advancement of citizenship and community development (including the promotion of civic responsibility, volunteering, the voluntary sector or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities), and also having regard, but not exclusively, to the locality in which the former Queensberry House Hospital was located.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** Operations cover all or most of Scotland






