Victorian Scottish Heritage Cultural Foundation |

About us

The Scottish Foundation seeks to promote Scottish cultural heritage within and alongside Victoria’s rich and culturally diverse community of today. It was established in 2010 in response to a bequest by Victorian businessman the late Geoffrey Donaldson AO. The Foundation aims...

Relevance

Australia was shaped by Scottish migrants – and their thinking is still important today. The Scots valued political and personal freedom, egalitarianism, education for all, and the use of human reason for assessing whether an idea works and whether authority is justified....

Activities

The Foundation through its activities strives to help Scottish organisations and impact positively on Australia. Its activities include: developing and supporting programs and events that bring together the Scottish community in new or better ways funding scholarships...

Projects

The types of project the Foundation will either support, or decline to consider, are described below. The Foundation supports projects that: have as their objectives the recognition, celebration and promotion of Scottish cultural heritage Make their outputs available to the...