Charity detectives finding "buried treasure" to fund good works

City trusts gaining new purpose from successful release of ‘lost’ millions

It may not be buried treasure, but there is no getting away from the fact that millions of pounds of charitable funding given by generous Scots through the generations is locked away, unused.

Much of the money may as well be locked in a chest, because the purpose for which it was created is no longer relevant in a world that has changed beyond recognitio…