# The Dr David McNeil Summers Charitable Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC042304
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** May 12, 2011
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC042304


## Contact

- **Address:** 74/8 Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH10 4JU
- **Website:** www.davidsummerstrust.org.uk



## Activities

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

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

**What the charity does:** We provide grants to other charitable organisations in Scotland in order to promote the study and publication of, and research into, Scottish literature.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;,&#x27;Other charities or voluntary bodies&#x27;

**Objectives:** The purpose of the Trust is to promote and encourage the study, practice and knowledge of Scottish literature, to include, without limitation, publishing or funding the publication of Scottish literature, holding or sponsoring meetings open to the public to promote awareness and appreciation of Scottish literature and holding competitions or making awards or prizes to recognise effort and achievement in relation to the promotion of Scottish literature, together with any other purpose ancillary thereto.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** East Lothian
- **Geographical spread:** Operations cover all or most of Scotland







