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 that promote or develop Scottish music, dance, literature, language and performing arts in all its forms
- providing expertise and encouragement particularly to support initiatives that develop strategy and the future leadership of Scottish cultural heritage organisations
- financially supporting Scottish cultural events such as highland gatherings, ceilidhs, exhibitions, festivals, public displays and celebrations
- facilitating and promoting Scottish cultural projects in schools
- raising and investing funds so the Foundation can provide wider and stronger support in the years ahead
- recruiting and engaging supporters who contribute to the achievement of the Foundation’s objectives.
Foundation’s aims for Scottish cultural heritage organisations to:
- transform themselves to become more viable and sustainable – especially through developing more members, younger members and younger leaders, and through developing more advanced skills and understanding of Scottish cultural heritage
- stage more Scottish cultural events and activities, with better quality, more inclusion, and more visibility
- tell more of the stories of how the values of Scottish cultural heritage shaped Victoria and remain important today
- promote and support each other .
As a result the Foundation seeks a positive impact on the Australian community such that more Australians from all cultural backgrounds, and especially the young:
- participate in Scottish cultural heritage activity
- recognise Scottish symbols (tartan, bagpipes, Robert Burns etc) and the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment, and associate them together
- identify and feel proud of their Scottish ancestry (where they have one) and the values it represents.