Carnegie Hero Fund Trust

This article is about the UK Carnegie Hero Fund Trust. For the U.S. Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, see Carnegie Hero Fund.

The Carnegie Hero Fund Trust is a Scottish charity. It was established in 1908 as a British extension to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission which had been founded in 1904 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1] The Trust was founded upon a financial endowment from the Scottish philanthropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. The purpose of the Trust is to provide payments to individuals who have been injured or financially disadvantaged as a result of undertaking an act of heroism or in fatal cases to provide for the family or other dependants. This has continued to be the aim of the Trust which each year considers around twelve cases of heroism within a geographical area encompassing Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the surrounding territorial waters.[2]

  1. ^ Much of this entry is derived from information contained in chapter 4 of John Price, Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian (Bloomsbury: London, 2014) ISBN 978-1-4411066-5-0, which is entitled "Heroes for Hire: The Carnegie Hero Fund Trust".
  2. ^ The Carnegie Hero Fund Trust