Palmerston Place Church, Edinburgh

The Ronnie Williamson Trust is a Scottish Charity (SCO37016) set up in 2005 by Betty Williamson in memory of her husband, Ronnie, a Royal Marine Commando, businessman, and long-standing elder and member of Palmerston Place Church in Edinburgh. 

The Trust considers applications from young people who are members or adherents of PPC or North or West city churches who plan to engage in voluntary work in the UK or overseas. 

The Trust provides financial awards through a grant or periodic allowance which allows young people to grow by broadening their own horizons while helping others.

To be eligible for assistance , you must…

Be 16-25 years old.

Be a church member or regular attender of PPC or a church in the North or West of Edinburgh.

Wish to undertake voluntary work in the UK or abroad, which will have a positive educational, religious, medical, or societal impact?

Other examples of past activities that have been successfully funded by the Trust

•Assisting in an orphanage in Lusaka, Zambia.

•Working as a medical volunteer alongside Nepalese doctors in Kathmandu and surrounding countryside.

•Being involved in a care placement in Guadalajara in Mexico with the organisation Projects Abroad.