# Freemasons&#x27; Hall Aberdeen SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC051879
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** July 27, 2022
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC051879


## Contact

- **Address:** 88 Desswood Place, Aberdeen
- **Postcode:** AB15 4DQ



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It does none of these&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#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:** Achievements and Performance During the past twelve months a number of projects have been completed in respect of the maintenance and preservation of Freemasons’ Hall.  These have included repointing work, repairing  and repainting external windows frames on the front elevation.  Other minor works were also completed. Freemasons’ Hall continues to receive items of historic masonic interest from various sources.  These items are gratefully received and acknowledged and where appropriate, displayed or archived. Freemasons’ Hall hosted a wedding and reception during the year, using all available Halls in the building, for which we received a donation. During the year, several tours were provided on request.  These included visitors from overseas and some local organisations. A number of members’ organisations, operating within Freemasons’ Hall Aberdeen, have made donations to local and national charitable associations.

**Objectives:** 7 Purposes 7.1 The charitable purposes of the SCIO are:  7.1.1 the advancement of heritage by  7.1.1.1 preserving and maintaining Freemasons&#x27; Hall. and 7.1.1.2 collecting, cataloguing and displaying the artefacts and archives of local Masonic organisations.  7.1.2 the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by the provision of grants or support in kind to individuals or to other charitable or benevolent organisations as the Board may from time to time in its sole discretion see fit.





## Areas of operation

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






