# Scottish Parliament private bill helps modernise Glasgow charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/09/28/scottish-parliament-private-bill-helps-modernise-glasgow-charity/
- Published: 2009-09-28T15:55:34+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The first private bill to reach the Scottish Parliament since the full operation
of the new charities regulator, The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR),
will help overhaul a 103-year-old Glasgow charity and enable its trustees greater
flexibility in grantmaking.

 

The Ure Elder Fund for Indigent Widow Ladies was set up by Glasgow philanthropist
Isabella Elder, the widow of Govan-based engineering and shipbuilding pioneer. A
for the rights of women to access university degree courses, she set up the fund
to further her work in science, education and the welfare of impoverished women 
in Glasgow.

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Introduced to Holyrood by commercial law firms [Maclay Murray & Spens](http://www.mms.co.uk),
on behalf of the trustees, the private bill will dissolve the original fund and 
create a new trust.

 

Lead trustee Dr Cynthia McAlpine, explained: “The transfer of the original fund 
to the new trust will enable us to engage in a more appropriate and substantial 
manner, which will be of significant advantage to individual beneficiaries.”

 

Alan Eccles, a charities expert at Maclay Murray & Spens, said: “The Ure Elder Fund
was originally constituted by an Act of Parliament and any subsequent changes would,
therefore, require the trustees to follow the same path”.

 

www.oscr.org.uk

 

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