Final pay-out from Centenary Trust
NFU Scotland’s Centenary Trust has awarded a final cheque of £1,050 to mark its closing.
The Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) received the donation as the trustees met for the final time recently to close the books.
The trust was set up to mark the union’s centenary in 2013 with £217,000, raised from donations by NFU Scotland members, and distributed to charities and community organisations with an interest in agriculture. Since then, 73 projects have benefited from donations.
Among these, Lochgilphead Joint Campus received £500 for a Royal Highland Show visit, while Kilninver Primary School got £1,000 for polytunnel equipment, and Argyll UHI were gifted £7,200 for various projects. The largest award was given to Royal Northern Countryside Initiative of £17,500 to build a new classroom on wheels, with RHET Borders being given £5,000 to refurbish its country classroom on wheels. The Scottish Association of Young Farmers’ Clubs received a further £10,000 for health and safety projects across the country.
Trustee George Lawrie, a farmer in Fife, commented: ‘We are bringing the trust to a close but it will be great to see projects that have benefited from funding continue to educate and inform in the coming years. That is a fitting legacy to mark the centenary of the union in 2013.’