About Us

Finance and investments

John Muir Trust © – Picture of a digger completing reprofiling work on Beinn Dubh Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park

The Foundation was formed as a grantmaking charity from a generous endowment by John Reeves Ellerman, 2nd Baronet in 1971. Investing our endowment provides us with greater capacity to make grants to charities in the long term.

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