# Traquair House Charitable Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC027042
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Sept. 12, 1997
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC027042


## Contact

- **Address:** Princes Exchange, 1 Earl Grey Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH3 9EE



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;,&#x27;any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To preserve for the public benefit the property known as Traquair House, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire together with its related buildings and its gardens and policies, the furniture, pictures, books, works of art and other chattels ordinarily kept at Traquair, to facilitate and encourage access to and study and appreciation of Traquair and such chattels by the general public, to facilitate and encourage access to and study and appreciation of Traquair and such chattels by the general public, to facilitate and encourage at Traquair for the public benefit such activities as shall be for the advancement of education or in the interests of social welfare, and to promote for the public benefit ecumenical activities based at Traquair

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

**Objectives:** (a) To preserve for the public benefit the property known as Traquair House, Innerleithen,   Peeblesshire together with its related buildings and its gardens and policies (referred to as   &#x27;Traquair&#x27;) so far as vested in the Trustees  (b) To preserve for the public benefit as an adjunct to Traquair the furniture, pictures, books, works of art and other chattels ordinarily kept at Traquair or which may be given or loaned to the Trustees and which the Trustees shall consider to be appropriate to be kept at Traquair provided that money shall only be expended by the Trustees on the enhancement of furniture, pictures, books, works of art and other corporeal moveables or chattels which are lent to them if the Loan Agreement confers on the Trustees in the event of the termination of the loan full rights of compensation for any monies so expended  (c) To facilitate and encourage access to and study and appreciation of Traquair and such chattels by the general public  (d) To facilitate and encourage at Traquair for the public benefit such activities as shall be for the advancement of education or in the interests of social welfare  (e) To promote for the public benefit ecumenical activities based at Traquair





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Scottish Borders
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood







