McDougall Trust

The McDougall Trust (registered with the Charity Commission as The Arthur McDougall Fund) is a charitable trust formed in 1948 and governed by a Scheme issued by the High Court in 1959.

The Trust’s name derives from a member of the flour milling family, Sir Robert McDougall, who provided the means by which the Trust was set up.

The charity’s purposes, as stated in its governing scheme, are to advance knowledge of and encourage the study of and research into:

1. Political or economic science and functions of government and the services provided to the community by public and voluntary organisations.

2. Methods of election of and the selection and government of representative organisations whether national, civic, commercial, industrial or social.

The Trust’s work includes the maintenance and development of the Lakeman Library for Electoral Studies, a unique research resource and, of course, the production and publication of Representation: The Journal of Representative Democracy (ISSN 0034-4893). In an addition, the Trust has recently agreed to facilitate the publication of the Voting Matters, an occasional journal journal on the technicalities of electoral systems and preferential voting systems in particular.

The Trust also makes a small number of discretionary grants each year in support of political science projects and, in particular, electoral studies.

The value of the Trust assets and capital now stands at over £500,000. The Trustees are able to make a number of modest grants from the derived income for appropriate projects each year. The Trustees are pleased to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of the Trust and they will continue to review the impact that it has made with its funding to ensure that money continues to be well spent.

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