# Alexander Darling Silk Mercer Fund

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC036724
- **Status:** Removed
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Jan. 1, 1902
- **Removed:** March 24, 2026
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC036724


## Contact

- **Address:** The Merchant Hall, 22 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH2 2EP
- **Website:** www.mcoe.org.uk



## Activities

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

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

**What the charity does:** Women qualified to receive a pension are “55 years of age and over, of good character, preferably unmarried or widowed and being. a) gentlewomen born in the City of Edinburgh. or gentlewomen who for the greater part of their lives have been resident in the City of Edinburgh. or gentlewomen who are the widows of men who for the greater part of their lives were resident in Edinburgh b) Women who have been employed at any time within the City of Edinburgh in the manufacture or sale of any textile garments for ladies and children or such articles of apparel including millinery, furs, laces and silks as are usually dealt in by a ladies’ silk mercer”. Women who have been wholly connected in the manufacture or sale of garments for men’s wear are not qualified to receive an ex gratia pension. Preference is given to women bearing the surname Darling, Millar, or Scott and to women born in the town of Lanark. All those so named or so born are given equal preference.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Older People&#x27;

**Objectives:** The prevention or relief of poverty. The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






