# McCrae&#x27;s Battalion Charitable Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC037303
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** March 6, 2006
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC037303


## Contact

- **Address:** 27 Priestfield Road, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH16 5HU
- **Website:** www.mccraesbattaliontrust.org.uk



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of public participation in sport&#x27;,&#x27;any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The Trust endeavours to maintain and enhance the Memorial Cairn to McCrae&#x27;s Battalion at Contalmaison in France and the surrounding area.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;,&#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;,&#x27;Other charities or voluntary bodies&#x27;

**Objectives:** The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund and the income of it to pay and apply the same to or for the benefit of or in furtherance of such purposes, objects or institutions charitable in law and in such proportions and manner as the Trustees shall think fit.  In exercising their discretion in terms of this Clause the Trustees shall, where reasonably possible, give primary consideration to providing history education and, in doing so, endeavour to commemorate the sacrifice of the 16th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Scots Regiment.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas







