Donors to current and future fundraising projects and priorities

We are most grateful to each and every one of our donors and pledgers for their support and are delighted at the varied number of ongoing projects and priorities that they have elected to support. As we move forward with new projects, we will endeavour to highlight said projects within our website. Please note that some of our donors wish to remain anonymous.

Donors and pledges

As at 12 June 2013

Major gifts

• The John R Murray Charitable Trust

General

• Binks Trust
• Linlithgow Civic Trust
• Lothians Family History Society
• University of the Third Age
• The Sir Maxwell Harper Gow Charitable Trust
• Cairn Energy Plc
• The W S Wilson Charitable Trust
• The Alma & Leslie Wolfson Charitable Trust
• Sir Eric Anderson KT FRSE amd Lady Poppy Anderson
• Mr David L Barnard
• Ms Brittay Bovenzi
• Sir Peter Burt and Lady Burt
• Miss Pauline A M Clarke and Miss Patricia Clarke
• Ms Jennifer Cirone
• Mr J S Coduri
• Sir Sandy M Crombie and Lady Crombie
• Duchess of Hamilton
• Mr Richard C D Harman
• Ms Kirsten Howie
• Mrs Pamela Law
• Mr Charles Lovatt
• Professor Alexander McCall Smith CBE and Dr Elizabeth McCall Smith (in memory of Professor Alexander Fenton)
• Mr Ian A T McPhal
• Dr Patrick Mullin
• Mr Ian W Moffett
• Mr Peter Outen
• Mr Robin Pearson
• Ms Eileen Penman
• Mr John D Pickles
• Ms Catherine Purdie
• Mrs M Shand
• Mr Christopher Shilton
• Susan Tritton
• Mr Eric Vynckier
• Mr Max Ward and Lady Sarah Ward
• Mr Robert Whitfield
• Ms Lois Wolffe
• Donation Box donations (anonymous donors).

The Curator's Chest

• Edinburgh Decorative and Fine Arts Society
• Historic Libraries Forum
• The Lansdowne Charitable Settlement
• Stichting Teuntje Anna (TA Fund)
• University of Cambridge Edinburgh Branch
• Mrs K R Barclay Bowley
• Mr John Coduri.

Acquisitions

• Friends of the National Libraries (George Mackay Brown Papers).

 

Exhibition sponsorship and events

• Baillie Gifford & Co (2013 'Inspirations' series)
• Aberdeen Asset Management ('A swing through time' exhibition)
• David Livingstone 200 Project ('Picturing Africa' touring talk programme)
• The John R Murray Charitable Trust (David Livingstone exhibition activity)
• Scottish & Newcastle Plc ('Rebus and Rankin' exhibition)
• Royal Norwegian Consulate (Scandinavian music event).

 

The Bartholomew Archive

• The John R Murray Charitable Trust.

 

Befriend-A-Book scheme

• Mrs Cate J Newton
• Ms Gill Thring and Mr Ray Kelleher.

 

Bengali Book Project

• Binks Trust
• The Ernest Cook Trust
• The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation.

 

Conservation

• Elizabeth Soutar Charitable Trust
• The Wellcome Trust (Medical History of British India sponsor).

 

Education and access

• Robin Leith Trust (Education travel sponsor)
• The Craignish Trust (A' Adams Bairns Project)
• The Lindsay Trust (English Tracts cataloguing)
• The Trusthouse Charitable Trust (Education)
• The Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust (EDU residencies)
• The Russell Trust (EDU residencies)
• Cruden Foundation Ltd (EDU residencies)
• The Sir Maxwell Harper Gow Charitable Trust (EDU residencies).

 

Gaelic Language Plan

• Gaelic Language Act Information Fund.

 

John Murray Archive related

• The Jane Austen Society (Four O'Clock Friends — Adopt a manuscript)
• Dr Morteza Zanganeh (Four O'Clock Friends — Adopt a manuscript)
• Scottish Arts Council (John Murray Archive Writer in Residence.)

 

Scottish Screen Archive (SSA) Project

• The Hugh Fraser Foundation
• The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
• Mr Douglas Hall
• Mr James M Turner.

 

Bequests and legacies

• The late Major General James F J Johnston CB
• Miss Mary E Mackenzie
• Mr George C McElroy.

 

The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award

• Clan Donald Society
• Jeffrey Crawford & Co
• Institute of Contemporary Scotland
• The Michael Marks Trust
• School of Poets
• Scottish Library Association
• Morag Aitkenhead
• Kenneth Angus
• Mr and Mrs James Barr
• The late Walter Cairns
• Hazel Cameron
• George and Sarah Coghill
• Mary Coghill
• David Fletcher
• Mark and Alena Fraser
• Fiona Garry
• Duncan Glen
• Carol Gow
• Mr Robert Gregor
• Mr and Mrs R F Grigor
• Brian Hall
• Margaret and Hannah Harkins
• Alexander Hutchison
• Larry Hutchison
• Gordon Jarvie
• Norman Kreitman
• Kenneth Macdonald
• Etta Maclean
• John Maclean and Mairi Young
• Renee Maclean
• Alex and Pat Neish
• J B Pick
• Ms Tessa M Ransford OBE
• Mario Relich
• James Robertson
• Ted Ruddock
• M H Scott
• Craig Sharp
• Sicnarf Press
• Donald Crichton Smith
• The late Hazel Goodsir Smith
• Peter Standen
• Alan and Brenda White
• Eric Wishart.

 

If these lists have inspired you to consider donating to National Library of Scotland, please see our page on how to donate.

 

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