# The Maggie Law Maritime Museum SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC046498
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** April 21, 2016
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC046498


## Contact

- **Address:** William Street, Gourdon, Montrose , Gourdon, Gourdon
- **Postcode:** DD10 0LX
- **Website:** www.maggielaw.co.uk



## Activities

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

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

**What the charity does:** The Maggie Law Maritime Museum preserves the maritime and social history of Gourdon and the surrounding area. Housed in the former coastguard apparatus shed overlooking the Gutty harbour, it became the home of the Maggie Law surfboat after the lifeboat station closed in 1969. Volunteers opened it as an unmanned museum in 1997. A 2011 Aberdeenshire Council grant, along with community support and sponsorship, enabled major improvements, and the museum opened fully in April 2013. Since then it has been run by dedicated volunteers who work (to borrow the Reithian aim) to inform, educate and entertain. Open April to October, the museum welcomes visitors from near and far and received a Three Star award from the Scottish Tourist Board in 2015. It also engages the community through events, school presentations and ongoing collaboration, with locals contributing information, enthusiasm and occasional artefacts or donations.

**Objectives:** 4.1 To advance the heritage of the local area by: - Providing the widest possible heritage education opportunities for the local community, schools, and special interest groups. Providing a heritage experience for visitors and tourists to the area. Serving as a local heritage visitor attraction and community archive for the recording, restoration and promotion, of the rich maritime heritage of Gourdon and Kincardineshire.  Ensuring the safe keeping, maintenance and promotion of the Gourdon surf boat the &#x27;Maggie Law&#x27; and the associated heritage story and Promoting a sense of community civic pride in the heritage of the local area.  4.2 To advance citizenship, community development and rural regeneration by encouraging people to become actively involved in the wider heritage, social and recreational aspects of the village of Gourdon and the Mearns, and by creating volunteering and work opportunities around the museums activities





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Aberdeenshire
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas






