# Elizabeth Soutar Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC028463
- **Known as:** The Elizabeth Soutar Charitable Trust
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Dec. 8, 1998
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC028463


## Contact

- **Address:** Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, 9 Haymarket Square, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH3 8FY



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It does none of these&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The funds of the charity are used to support the National Library of Scotland&#x27;s various collections.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;

**Objectives:** To pay and make over to The National Library of Scotland, (hereinafter referred to as “the Library&#x27;), George IV Bridge, Edinburgh the net annual income and, at the discretion of the Trustees, any part of or even the whole of the capital (together the “Charitable Funds”) of the Trust Estate as follows. the acquisition or purchase of manuscripts and printed and new media materials and copyrights where deemed by the Library to enhance the Library’s collections relating to science.





## Geography

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






