Leith Industrial School Trust

Constitutional objectives

Section 13 of the Leith Industrial School Trust Scheme 1933 states: (1) It shall be in the power of the governing body after paying the necessary expenses of management and the burdens and taxes affecting the endowment to apply the free annual income of the endowment in such proportions as they think expedient – (a) In making grants to the manager of holiday homes which are conducted solely or partly for the benefit of children and young people ordinarily resident in Leith: (b) In making grants to the managers of play-centres situated in Leith or elsewhere and conducted solely or partly for the benefit of children ordinarily resident in Leith: (c) In making grants to the managers of clubs, societies and organisations situated in or outwith Leith or having for their headquarters ships stationed in the harbour and docks of Leith and conducted solely or partly for the benefit of children and young people ordinarily resident in Leith: (d) In making grants to the managers of homes, orphanages and approved schools situated outside Leith in which children and young people natives of Leith are resident: (e) In making grants to the funds if the Leith Hospital (Incorporated), registered under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1900, for the purpose of assisting to meet the expenditure incurred on children ordinarily resident in Leith which are being treated in the children’s ward of the said Hospital.