Carluke Parish Historical Society

Constitutional objectives

The aims of the Society shall be to encourage all residents to promote the following objects:- a) To stimulate public interest in, and awareness of the natural features of, and human activity in, the Parish, past and present. b) To work towards the eventual establishment of and thereafter to maintain or assist in maintaining a local museum or permanent exhibition place. c) To discover, acquire, copy, compile and preserve all records of local interest. d) To discover, identify, acquire, copy, catalogue and preserve all objects and artifacts of local interest. e) To encourage the identification, preservation and maintenance of all local buildings and sites of interest or significance and the erection where appropriate of plaques and memorials. f) To encourage the organisation locally of all forms of cultural, recreational, charitable and intellectual activity. g) To promote the interests of the local community in all matters affecting the quality of life in the Parish. h) To pursue these ends by means of meetings, exhibitions, lectures, publications, conferences and publicity, the making or giving of commendations, prizes and awards and the promotion of schemes of a charitable nature.