Not The Stornoway Trust


This website is independent, and is not run by the Stornoway Trust. It exists:

  • To share information about the Trust, which currently has no website of its own.
  • To keep a critical eye on what the Trust is doing with the assets that it manages for all of us.
  • To push for reform of the Trust's deeds, processes and elections.



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Documents

The Trust is a charity, set up in 1923 when the estate was gifted by Lord Leverhulme. Many of the documents associated with the Trust are in the public domain.

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Elections

The Trust is governed by ten trustees, who are elected by the public and serve a six year term. Elections are held every three years, with five trustees elected each time.

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Reforms

The Trust was created almost 100 years ago. A lot has changed since then, but the deeds that govern the Trust basically haven't. They need updating to make them fit for purpose in the modern world. We are campaigning for this to happen.

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