Scottish+Wine+and+Spirit+Merchants

=[|Scottish Wine & Spirit Merchants Benevolent Institution]=

Company Number: SC00328 Date of Incorporation: 11 May 1870 Contact Details: 116 Hope Street, Glasgow, G2 6PS, [|www.bensoc.org.uk] Operating Details: Dissolved 8 September 2009, but has been succeeded by The Scottish Licensed Trade benevolent Society Other names (if known): Successor organisation is The Scottish Licensed Trade benevolent Society, or The BEN Function of Company*: Charitable organisation (8532) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Glasgow Area of Operation: Initially Glasgow, then throughout the west of Scotland


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
Held By: Glasgow University Archive Services, ref: GB 248 UGD 119/5, 10, 11

Scope/type: Minutes 1871-1976; Members Book 1866-1936; Feu duties, ground annuals, interest etc. book 1945-1958; Pension roll book 1954-1967; Director’s reports and balance sheets 1864-1948

Conditions governing access: Open, subject to GUAS conditions of use

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Company History
The Scottish Wine & Spirit Merchants Benevolent Institution was founded in 1866 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1870, the institution was incorporated as a company limited by members. Members paid to join the institution, making a one-off payment for life membership and paying a premium that the company then invested in government bonds and on the stock market. Membership was open to those working in the licensing trade. In 1880, the company stated its purpose as assisting its members, their widows, and their families when required, providing education for the families of indigent members.

Following various financial losses in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the company went into voluntary liquidation in 1976. The company's assets were to be transferred to the Benevolent Society of the Licensed Trade of Scotland. The Scottish Wine & Spirit Merchants Benevolent Institution was then integrated with the East of Scotland Licensed Trade Benevolent Institution which was incorporated as the East of Scotland Licensed Trade Benevolent Institution in 1976. This organisation has since become The Scottish Licensed Trade Benevolent Society, or BEN, and is still active today across the whole of Scotland.

Information taken from [|www.bensoc.org] and GUAS