Professor Stewart Brymer pens history of pioneering charity

One of Scotland’s leading solicitors, Professor Stewart Brymer, has written a history of the Dundee Heritage Trust which, with limited resources, managed to create two five star visitor attractions that have become a cornerstone of Dundee’s current revival with a massive investment in the new V&A Museum and the waterfront development now underway.

With only a very small subsidy from local government, the Trust runs the Discovery Point visitor centre and maintains Captain Scott’s RRS Discovery. It also runs Verdant Works which tells the story of Dundee’s textile industry and the city’s primacy as the world centre of jute manufacture.

Dundee Heritage Trust is the only independent charity in Scotland to operate two five-star visitor attractions. Professor Brymer has been instrumental in the Trust’s progress and served as its chairman of from 1996 to 2009. His contribution to the success of the charity was recognised with the award of an OBE and he now serves as its Honorary President.