# Keay Thom Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC027832
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** March 18, 1998
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC027832


## Contact

- **Address:** C/O Lindsays LLP, 10 Blackfriars Street, Perth
- **Postcode:** PH1 5NS



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To assist widows and widowers, civil partners or relatives of deceased ministers or those same relatives who have separated or been divorced from ministers and on them leaving the manse to help them set up a new home or provided other forms of financial support in these circumstances and also to assist financially in the education or training of the above relatives or the children of deceased ministers

**Objectives:** &#x27;(THIRD) I direct my Trustees to hold the Trust Fund and to apply the income for such one or more of the following purposes, namely:  (One) for the benefit of impoverished widows, widowers, surviving civil partners or other relatives (including relatives through marriage) of a deceased Minister or of Minister&#x27;s spouses or civil partners who have been deserted by the Minister or who have been given sufficient grounds for raising an action of divorce, dissolution or separation against them (whether they raise such an action or not) (hereinafter referred to as &#x27;the beneficiaries&#x27;) all or any of whom having been wholly dependent upon and having assisted the said Minister in the fulfilment of his or her manse duties and by reason of death or desertion or having been given grounds for raising or having raised an action of divorce, dissolution or separation have subsequently lost their home and to assist the beneficiaries in the purchase of a dwelling house or to provide them with any financial and material assistance which my Trustees in their sole discretion shall see fit (whether it be for the provision of accommodation or not) by the provision of a lump sum payment, a periodic payment, a loan or rent, all upon such terms and conditions as my Trustees in their sole discretion shall consider appropriate. and (Two) for the benefit of indigent widows, widowers, surviving civil partners or children of deceased Ministers, and the beneficiaries as hereinbefore designed in Clause THIRD (One) who are undertaking education or training (whether for the Ministry or not) by the provision of a lump sum payment, periodic payment or a loan all upon such terms and conditions as my Trustees in their sole discretion shall consider appropriate. Declaring that any payments of any kind made by my Trustees as herein directed shall only be to such persons or other bodies for charitable purposes. In this Clause, and throughout this Trust Deed, the word &#x27;charitable&#x27; shall have the meaning ascribed to it for the purposes of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and also the Taxes Acts including any statutory amendment or re-enactment for the time being in force.&#x27;





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Perth And Kinross
- **Geographical spread:** Operations cover all or most of Scotland






