Burall Legacy Fund Engagement

The Burall Legacy Fund engagement has now ended. Thank you to everyone who shared their views and suggestions and took part.

Community Engagement Concluded – Next Steps

Thank you to everyone who shared their ideas on how the Burall Legacy Fund could support health and wellbeing in Badenoch and Strathspey. The engagement process is now complete, and your feedback has shaped the Burall Legacy Fund Engagement Summary Report, which highlights local priorities and opportunities.

As a first step, Trustees have committed an initial £50,000 to support four local facilities, with a first focus on the Wade Centre and Mains House in Badenoch. Further opportunities are also being explored at Grant House and the Glen Centre, with the latter providing day care services for residents from Badenoch. Read more on this in our news post.

This is just the beginning. We’ll continue working with NHS Highland and community partners to explore further investments, including in areas such as mental health, green health initiatives, and access to health and wellbeing activities.

👉 Read the full report here

The Highland Health Board Endowment Funds charity (SC016791) is the official charity of NHS Highland.

Our mission is to support and improve healthcare in Highland and Argyll & Bute by funding projects that go above and beyond the day-to-day services provided by NHS Highland.

These projects can range from small improvements and added comforts to major innovations — all aimed at making a positive difference to people’s health and wellbeing, from birth through to later life.

The Highland Health Board Endowment Funds charity (SC016791) has a donation worth £306,890 from the late Theresa Burall. The donation was first made in 2002 for St Vincent's Hospital. Until it closed in 2021, the money was used to improve hospital facilities — including car parking, toilets, ward spaces, staff changing areas, and palliative care services.

This generous gift, known as a legacy — money left to a charity when someone has died — is now available for the benefit of NHS Highland patients, residents, and service users across Badenoch and Strathspey. We’d like your ideas on how this money could be used to improve health and wellbeing in the area. Your suggestions will help us decide how the donation should be spent.

Share your views

Your ideas can help shape how the Theresa Burall Legacy Fund is used to improve health and wellbeing in Badenoch and Strathspey. Whether you have a specific suggestion or just want to share what matters most to your community, we’d love to hear from you. The Trustees (the people in charge of the charity) will then review all the suggestions when deciding how to spend the money and work with local health leaders to agree a plan.

Please take a few minutes to complete our short feedback survey — your voice really does make a difference. The survey will be open until 13 June 2025 but you can keep adding ideas to this page until 1 August 2025.

Feel free to download a copy of our survey poster to display in your area to encourage participation.

Please note: The Burall Legacy Fund cannot be used to pay for:

Core NHS responsibilities, such as statutory services or to deliver ministerial policies
Health and safety or legal employment requirements
General operational costs or the day-to-day running of services, including core staff salaries
Projects that don’t clearly relate to improving health or wellbeing

This is to make sure that charitable donations add to existing services, rather than replacing what the NHS is already expected to provide. Keep this in mind when sharing your ideas. We understand that some great suggestions may be made that the charity isn’t able to take forward. When that happens, we’ll explain why — so you know how decisions were made and how they align with the fund’s purpose.

We suggest you read the Q&A guide in the Project Document section to learn more about the Burall Legacy fund and the charity before completing the feedback survey.