Dates for your Diary - The Royal Scots
Dates for your Diary - The Royal Scots
Dates for your Diary - The Royal Scots
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Scots</strong> Benevolent Society<br />
Chairman: Major D J C Meehan<br />
Secretary: Captain W G Sutherland<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Scots</strong> Benevolent Society (Charity Number SC 011397) was inaugurated in 1919 immediately after the Great<br />
War. By means of donations and legacies a Fund was gathered.<br />
Since its inception the Society has assisted over 17,000 families, <strong>for</strong> various reasons, from Boer War Veterans to<br />
serving soldiers (which includes <strong>for</strong>mer <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Scots</strong> who now serve with <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> Regiment of Scotland). In case of<br />
need, any <strong>for</strong>mer <strong>Royal</strong> Scot, his widow or other dependants may apply <strong>for</strong> assistance and all cases will be<br />
investigated and considered. Applications <strong>for</strong> assistance should be made to:<br />
Secretary, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Scots</strong> Benevolent Society, c/o Home Headquarters<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Scots</strong> (<strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> Regiment), <strong>The</strong> Castl,e EDINBURGH EH1 2YT<br />
Extracts from the Balance Sheet will be published in the November issue of the Thistle.<br />
Constitution – Changes which have occurred as a result of the <strong>for</strong>mation of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> Regiment of Scotland on<br />
28 March 2006.<br />
A number of changes to the Constitution had to be made as a result of the <strong>for</strong>mation of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> Regiment of<br />
Scotland on 28 March 2006. <strong>The</strong>se Changes were approved by both the Trustees and Members at Extraordinary<br />
General Meetings held in Edinburgh on Friday 31 March 2006 and have now been published.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been some changes to the Objects of the Society and the detail as contained in the Revised Constitution<br />
is as follows:<br />
“Objects”<br />
<strong>The</strong> objects of the society shall be as follows:<br />
a. to help to conserve, promote and celebrate the position, prestige, history, traditions and privileges of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong><br />
<strong>Scots</strong> (<strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> Regiment) (hereinafter referred to as “the Regiment”) as the First Regiment of Foot and the<br />
Senior Regiment of the Line in the British Army.<br />
b. to provide financial assistance to persons serving or who have served in the Regiment in any rank (hereinafter<br />
referred to as “soldiers”), whose full-time service is about to end, to soldiers who are in part-time service and to<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer soldiers, to help them to obtain employment;<br />
c. to provide financial assistance or gifts in kind to <strong>for</strong>mer soldiers, their widows, children and other dependents,<br />
(being soldiers widows, children and dependants who are in distressed or needy circumstances).<br />
d. to provide financial assistance or gifts in kind to the fiancée and natural children of soldiers who have died while<br />
a serving member of the Regiment, and who are in distressed or needy circumstances;;<br />
e. to grant small pensions to <strong>for</strong>mer soldiers and their widows, being <strong>for</strong>mer soldiers or widows who are aged or<br />
infirm;<br />
f. to contribute to organisations of which <strong>for</strong>mer soldiers who are in distressed or needy circumstances have been<br />
or are likely to be beneficiaries;<br />
g. to contribute to any Trust established <strong>for</strong> purposes that are exclusively charitable provided such Trusts have<br />
objects that include the promotion of the improvement, efficiency or welfare of Regiments of the Armed Forces<br />
of the Crown or units thereof.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> Regiment of Scotland<br />
For those <strong>for</strong>mer <strong>Royal</strong> Scot Officers and Soldiers now serving in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> Regiment of Scotland please be assured<br />
that, as you have previously subscribed via the Day’s Pay Scheme to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Scots</strong> Benevolent Society, should you<br />
or <strong>your</strong> dependants be in distressed or needy circumstances, you will still be eligible to apply <strong>for</strong> help.<br />
Your Day’s Pay Scheme to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Scots</strong> should have ceased with effect 28 March 2006, the <strong>for</strong>mation date of <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Royal</strong> Regiment of Scotland and, by now you should have been asked to complete the relevant <strong>for</strong>ms agreeing to<br />
give One Day’s Pay to the newly <strong>for</strong>med Welfare Fund of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Royal</strong> Regiment of Scotland.<br />
In all cases, if an applicant served in 2 or more Regiments during his service, any grant given is divided on a prorata<br />
basis.<br />
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