# The Turtleton Charitable Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC038018
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** March 28, 2007
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC038018


## Contact

- **Address:** Messrs Turcan Connell, Princes Exchange, 1 Earl Grey Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH3 9EE
- **Website:** www.turcanconnell.com/turtleton/



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#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:** The Trustees shall pay or apply the Trust Funds for the benefit or furtherance of such purposes as they in their absolute discretion shall determine.  Although the objectives are wide reaching, the Trustees favour supporting projects in the areas of the advancement of arts, culture and heritage and to support the disadvantaged and the advancement of education.  Supporting those chosen organisations is by way of one off grants or multi-year grants.

**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 terns of this Clause the Trustees shall give primary consideration to the wishes of those persons who gift or lend funds to the Trust but this proviso shall impose no binding obligation on the Trustees.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** Scotland and other parts of the UK






