B&C Appendix Charity & Trust Fund 2025
Argyll and Bute Council · 2 December 2025
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Classification: OFFICIAL# TRUST NAME CHARITABLE PURPOSE DISTRIBUTION PROPOSAL Capital (Restricted Funds) Income during 2024-25 Accumulated Funds for Distribution LAMONT BEQUEST To be distributed to the poor of Kilfinan Website created to encourage applications. Aplications considered at Area Committee. 220.00 242.00 4,671.00 MARQUIS OF BUTE SILVER WEDDING DOWRY £100 given by John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, on 12 April 1897 (the date of his silver wedding) to Rothesay Town Council. He was at that date the Provost of the Burgh. The annual income to be given to one or two girls from the poorer classes in the Burgh upon their marriage. Various conditions have to be observed at the handing over of the money. See Rothesay Town Council Minutes 12/4/1897 and 10/5/1897. Applications to be encouraged from girls of Rothesay who are being married. Forms to be given out to those applying for a marriage licence. 3,400.00 413.00 751.00 MRS MARY MILLAN BEQUEST Coals for poor of Rothesay 60.00 7.00 98.00 BETHIA WEIR BEQUEST Mrs Bethia McNeil or Weir, widow, Rothesay died 1909. Will confirmed and recorded 1910. Bequest of £51.1s.0d to Rothesay Town Council, the annual income therefrom to be applied annually to the fund for supplying coal to the poor of Rothesay 51.00 16.00 291.00 BAILLIE GILLIES BEQUEST This charity was “inherited” from Bute County Council. Baillie Gillies, is presumed to have been William Gillies, cooper and fishcurer in Rothesay and sometime a Baillie and Chief Magistrate of that Burgh. He was elected to the Town Council in 1812 and retired in 1835. 3,100.00 530.00 8,172.00 COATS BEQUEST INVERCHAOLIN Cemetry maintenance of family lairs. n/a 300.00 14.00 25.00 Moratorium in situ Bespoke arrangements in place Income of Mrs Mary Millan Bequest, Bertha Wier Bequest, Provosts Bequest and Baillie Gillies Bequest combined to have one advert to distribute to poor in Rothesay.
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Classification: OFFICIAL# TRUST NAME CHARITABLE PURPOSE DISTRIBUTION PROPOSAL Capital (Restricted Funds) Income during 2024-25 Accumulated Funds for Distribution DUNOON & KILMUN CEMETERIES This fund appears to be an aggregate of seven Mortifications which were administered by the former Dunoon & Kilmum Cemeteries Joint Committee until 1975. The fund is for the upkeep of lairs in the Cemeteries. The seven motifications are specified, along with the lairs, in the Abstracts of Accounts of the Dunoon & Kilmun Cemeteries Joint Committee. n/a 588.00 24.00 99.00 MRS B MACEWANS TRUST A bequest of £100 received in 1959 from Mrs Barbara M MacEwan, the income of which is to be used for the maintenance of two lairs (which the minutes do not specify) in the burial ground of Inverchaolain. See minutes of Health & Welfare Committee of Argyll County Council, 5 June 1959. n/a 200.00 8.00 22.00 BUTE EDUCATION Award prizes in schools in Bute. n/a 3,106.00 154.00 174.00 PIANO FUND DUNOON This fund probably dates back to about 1875 when a 'Piano Fund' was set aside by the Dunoon burgh Commissioners for the repair and tuning of a piano in the Burgh Hall. The Fund was certainly in existence in 1890. In the financial year 1931-32 the name of the Fund was changed to the Burgh Hall Piano renewal but cannot trace the relevant minutes of Dunoon Town Council for the change. The name of the Fund appears to be self explanatory. The Burgh Hall has ceased to be used for public concerts. See Dunoon Burgh Abstracts of Accounts, 1890-91, 1930-31, 1931- 32. n/a 400.00 19.00 126.00 TULLOCH LIBRARY DUNOON Formation of public library. n/a 400.00 21.00 45.00
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Classification: OFFICIAL# TRUST NAME CHARITABLE PURPOSE DISTRIBUTION PROPOSAL Capital (Restricted Funds) Income during 2024-25 Accumulated Funds for Distribution PROVOSTS BEQUEST ROTHESAY This fund was instigated by Provost James MacMillan in 1920 with an initial contribution from him of £200. It was begun as a commemoration of the visit of King George V to Rothesay on 11 July 1922. Provost MacMillan's donation was quickly augmented, and the scope of the Fund was widened after the Second World War. n/a 1,200.00 42.00 135.00