2013 Magazine - Royal Caledonian Ball

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The National Trust for Scotland is the conservation charity that protects and promotes Scotland's natural and cultural heritage for present and future generations to enjoy. With over 312,000 members in Scotland, the UK and internationally, as well as 3,000 volunteers, it is the country’s largest conservation organisation. Established in 1931, the Trust acts as guardian of Scotland’s magnificent heritage of natural, architectural and historic treasures. It is an independent charity, not part of Government, and acts on behalf of everyone to safeguard our heritage. We care for 129 properties that tell the long story of Scotland, including 78,000 hectares of landscape encompassing 10,000 archaeological sites, 46 Munro mountains, the austere beauty of Glencoe and islands and coastlines shaped by geology, time and the elements. We are the third largest land manager in Scotland, responsible for lands at the core of Scotland’s national parks, seven National Nature Reserves, 27 sites designated as of European importance for nature conservation and 46 sites of national The National Trust for Scotland 28 importance. We estimate that at least two million visitors enjoy our outdoor properties every year. Among the 400 islands and islets in our care is the only mixed World Heritage Site in the UK – the archipelago of St Kilda on the western approaches of the North Atlantic – designated for its terrestrial and marine natural heritage and cultural landscape. Abandoned by its human inhabitants in 1930, it hosts a fifth of the world’s Northern gannets and the largest colonies in the British Isles of Northern fulmar, Leach’s storm-petrel and Atlantic puffin. Humble, vernacular buildings - such as the place of Dr David Livingstone’s birth in Blantyre in 1813, Robert Burns’ cottage in Alloway and JM Barrie’s birthplace in Kirriemuir - compare with the grandest of castles and country houses, including Culzean, Crathes and Craigievar, each being the scene of fascinating human stories displaying ambition, fortitude, and weakness leading to world-changing events and, it is said, the odd haunting too.
Our responsibilities contain and contrast architecture that was once at the cutting edge of technology, like Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House, alongside turf ramparts borne of military necessity on the Roman world’s most northerly frontier. Technology and conflict certainly come together at Culloden, with its internationally acclaimed immersive cinema that puts you in the middle of the battle, and will do so again using the very latest 3-D digitisation at the new Battle of Bannockburn centre which opens in 2014. Management of landscape and buildings on the very largest of scales also has to be matched to almost infinite attention to detail. Our experts conserve over 100,000 artefacts representing the everyday tools of lives once lived and many great works of fine art and interior decoration. It is natural to expect an organisation like the Trust to look after properties but we also have a mission to promote and interpret our shared heritage too. In urban areas and across Scotland, we work with schools and groups supporting disadvantaged children in order to introduce them to our shared heritage. We welcome thousands of school children to our properties every year and use every possible method to engage them in 29 the excitement and fascination that history and nature can offer. We also have an international dimension to our work, as Scotland’s heritage also belongs to the world: Our USA Foundation and the Canadian National Trust for Scotland are instrumental in keeping alive our heritage, with the Scottish Diaspora raising generous donations towards its upkeep. Neither must it be forgotten that around 10% of the Trust’s membership resides in London and the south-east of England. For that reason among many, our London Committee is vital to our work and plays a significant part in the fundraising on which we depend. As a charity, with limited Government funding, we depend almost wholly on generous gifts, donations and bequests, as well as the fees our members pay. We estimate that it costs us at least £100,000 each and every day, or about £70 a minute, simply to meet the basic costs of maintaining our properties. However, given the real treasures of world importance in our care, we see this as a price worth paying. For more information go to www.nts.org.uk or email osmart@nts.org.uk to find out about the events being organised by the London Committee.
Page 1 and 2: THE ROYAL CALEDONIAN BALL MAGAZINE
Page 3 and 4: Welcome to the 165th Royal Caledoni
Page 5 and 6: Her Royal Highness The Princess Roy
Page 8 and 9: Silent Auction This year our Silent
Page 12 and 13: Stirling Castle, home to the famous
Page 14 and 15: and the best craftsmanship of the d
Page 16 and 17: The Scottish Colourist: S. J. Peplo
Page 18: A friendly boarding and day school
Page 21 and 22: One of the joys of the role, and th
Page 23 and 24: You seem to have carved out a uniqu
Page 25: irs 1 3 7 9 11 Band Side Band Stage
Page 29: Roasted saddle of French farmed rab
Page 33 and 34: In 2012 The Committee of the Royal
Page 35 and 36: St Andrew’s Children’s Society
Page 37 and 38: In 1979 we were awarded the Queen
Page 39 and 40: managers look after their salmon st
Page 41 and 42: Mrs Christopher Boyle Mrs Evan Bruc
Page 43 and 44: Dafydd Jones Photographer Parties,
Page 45 and 46: The Ball is held under the patronag
Page 47 and 48: FRANCIS CAMPBELL BOILEAU CADELL REF

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