# R S E Scotland Foundation

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC024636
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Part of:** [Royal Society Of Edinburgh](/sc/SC000470) (SC000470)
- **Registered:** March 21, 1996
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC024636


## Contact

- **Address:** 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH2 2PQ
- **Website:** https://rse.org.uk/



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#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:** The RSE Scotland Foundation&#x27;s primary objectives include advancing and promoting the education and greater understanding of the public in Scotland in science, engineering and technology as well as preserving and conserving the architectural, scientific and cultural heritage of Scotland. In fulfilling these aims, during the year the Foundation has: •	Published two learned journals. •	Managed the assets of the Caledonian Research Foundation Fund, to fund appointments under the research awards schemes. •	Rented surplus space to provide income to support charitable activities.   The Foundation publishes two journals, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (EESTRSE) and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section A: Mathematics (Proceedings A), on behalf of the RSE.

**Objectives:** To advance the education of the public in Scotland in science engineering and technology and in furtherance thereof:- (a) To research and explore developing areas of learning and human knowledge and to disseminate by whatever means the results of such research, particularly in Scotland. (b) To promote the greater public understanding of all sciences, engineering and technology and their part in increasing the wealth and quality of life of the people of Scotland.  (c) To encourage for the benefit of the people of Scotland collaboration between the academic and business communities in Scotland.  (d) To preserve and conserve the architectural, scientific and cultural heritage of Scotland and to collect, for the purposes of preservation, conservation and exhibition, for the benefit of the people of Scotland, writings, instruments, artefacts, specimens of natural history and any other material which, in the opinion of the Trustees relates to the cultural and scientific heritage of Scotland.  (e) To call upon the broad intellectual resources of the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and such other Societies and organisations as appropriate in the promotion of the foregoing purposes.





## Areas of operation

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






