Scottish Working People's History Trust

Country

Scotland

Charity number

SC020357

Status

Active

Registered

July 17, 1992

Legal form

Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Address

Contact

Website

swpht.org.uk

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science'

The Trust's main objective is to find, document and preserve evidence of the history of working people in Scotland. This is done by running oral history recording projects with different occupational groups, and then transcribing the recordings and making them publicly available through the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. When possible, the Trust also publishes volumes of memories of the working lives of the people it has interviewed.

Beneficiaries: 'No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: The object of the Trust is so far as the same is legally charitable to advance the education of the public generally concerning the history of Scottish working people, and in furtherance thereof but not otherwise the Trust has powers as under. To search for and where possible secure for permanent deposti in pubic, university or other appropriate repositories in Scotland, source materials - both organisational and personal - relating to the histoty of working people in Scotland. 2. To persuade all relevant organisations formally to undertake the regular transfer into public, university or other appropriate repositories of their choice of those of their records no longer required for present or future administrative or other purposes and to persuade such organisations to grant so far as is possible full access to such source materials to all bona fide researchers. 3. To publicise by every possible means the need to secure the preservation in the interests of Scottish History of source materials in the hands of private individuals. 4. To undertake, always in consultation with local librarians, history societies and other interested individuals or bodies such as the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh, the Scottish Oral History Society, and the proposed Scottish Sound Archive or similar institution, so that duplication of effort may be avoided, the tape-recording of the recollections of working people throughout Scotland concerning their working, housing, cultural, recreational and other experience. and the transcription, editing and publication of such recollections. 5. To undertake, possibly in cooperation with other bodies such as the Scottish History Society or the European Ethnological Research Centre as part of their own pUblications programmes, the editing and publication of relevant documentary source material, whether organisational or personal.

Geography

Main operating location

Glasgow City

Geographical spread

Operations cover all or most of Scotland

Finances

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