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The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation

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The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation has been established to create a statue of Nelson Mandela and to in Nelson Mandela Place Glasgow and to increase the knowledge and understanding of:

  • The life and legacy of Nelson Mandela;
  • the role of Scotland and Glasgow in the worldwide campaign for his release and against apartheid.

The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation is launching a campaign to raise funds to create a statue of Nelson Mandela.

We hope that the people of Scotland will contribute generously to the campaign to create a statue of Nelson Mandela to celebrate his centenary.


The aims of the Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation

The advancement of heritage and education, particularly through increasing knowledge and understanding of:

i) the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela;

ii) his role in the struggle for freedom and human rights in South Africa

iii) the lessons of that struggle for continued active commitment to human rights, equality and racial harmony

iv) the historic role of Glasgow in particular and of Scotland more generally in the world-wide campaign for his release and for human rights in South Africa.

v) Scotland’s strong historical connections with other leading South African figures and its wider links with South Africa’s history.

Click here for more about the Education Project.

The Trustees

The Trustees of the Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation are:

Jim Tait – Vice-chair
Janis Carson
David Kenvyn
Brian Purdie
Lorraine Purdie

Isobel Tait

(John Stevenson to April 2022 – Click here for an appreciation)

(Chris Bartter to October 2017 – Click here for an appreciation)

The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Charity No: SC047067.

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