North Queensferry Heritage Trust

Constitutional objectives

The organisation’s purposes are: To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in history, culture, heritage and the arts, in particular architecture, town planning, the environment and in furtherance thereof (but without prejudice to the foregoing generality): to encourage the appreciation and understanding of the heritage of North Queensferry and its immediate surroundings. to furnish and propagate, by whatever means may be appropriate, education and information to explain the artistic, historic, cultural, scientific and natural environmental values of the said area. and to create, hold and develop Accessioned Collections (as hereinafter defined) and to make such Accessioned Collections available to scholars and to the public generally by housing the same in museums or in such other way as may be appropriate and to run and operate such museums or other facilities. To promote and encourage the preservation and improvement of the environment of North Queensferry and its immediate surroundings and in furtherance thereof (but without prejudice to the foregoing generality): To monitor, comment upon and seek to positively influence town planning, architectural and environmental developments affecting the said area, taking into account the benefit to the inhabitants of the area and allowing for the growth in tourism. and, to provide and maintain facilities, buildings, (including museums), sculptures, Accessioned Collections, monuments, land forms, meeting and lecture rooms, plaques, notice boards, benches and external furniture, signposts, paths, catering facilities and the like to benefit the public environment of the said area, and to provide support (practical and financial), grants and loans to organisations undertaking similar activities within said area