Chapter 7: Future campaigns to oppose commercial development in the Glen @ http://www.saveourglen.com/ looks at ways to influence the way the Trust has acted in overturning the wishes of Andrew Carnegie with regard to Pittencrieff Park. There are several ways that the Trust can be reined-in, through the courts, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), by petitioning the Queen and by...

Chapter 6 of Save Our Glen @ http://www.saveourglen.com tells of how the Trust has failed Carnegie and the people and looks at three examples of their failures. The adequacy or otherwise of the Carnegie legacy is examined in the style of the Fife poet William Hershaw. The question of the Trust’s once massive property portfolio, which has been reduced to a rump, is exemplified in the case of the...

Chapter 5 of Save Our Glen website @ http://www.saveourglen.com/ describes how when the Supplementary Charter was published it was apparent that it had been cobbled together without much care. What was described as a Humber petition used the word Pittencrieff on 11 occasions and on each occasion the word was mis-spelled. The new terms that had been applied for in secret allowed the Trust to sel...

Chapter 4 of Save Our Glen website at http://www.saveourglen.com deals with the rumour started by Gordon Brown MP's announcement that a £30 million Harvard-style business school was to be built in Scotland. The rumour was then taken a step further with the location of the school being the Pittencrieff Park. This was at a time when the Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trustees had secretly cha...

Chapter 3, Save Our Glen website charts the changing fortunes of the Carnegie Dunfermline & Hero Fund Trustees which results in their being unable to pay for the upkeep of the Pittencrieff Park and the Fife Council having to bail them out. The Council then put pressure on the Trust to secretly change the terms of the Royal Charter to allow parts of the Glen to be sold or leased and for the Trus...

Chapter 2 of the Save Our Glen website deals with the original trust deed and letter from Andrew Carnegie that gifted the Pittencrieff Park and one quarter of a million Dollars in bonds to give his people a park for their liesure and recreation that would be passed on to their children. The original deed was later converted into a Royal Charter

Chapter 1 of Save Our Glen website deals with the life of the young Andrew Carnegie in Dunfermline and how the Pittencrieff Park (known locally as the Glen) had a massive impact on his life. Andrew was born into a family of intelligent radicals and was taught local history by his uncle George Lauder. Dunfermline had a long history of charitable donations and as far back as 1322, Robert of Crail...

Save Our Glen is a website dedicated to protect the Pittencrieff Park Dunfermline from commercial development. The park was gifted to the people of Dunfermline by Andrew Carnegie for the recreation of the people in perpetuity. The custodians of the gift the Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trustees are seeking to dispose of parts of the park as they are short of cash. The Trust went behind th...