Project Heritage
Please support our campaign to restore the SVR Memorial at Eastern Cemetery
Thank you for your kind interest in PROJECT HERITAGE: Scottish Veterans Residences’ 2025 campaign to restore our charity’s monument and memorial to former Servicemen, situated in Eastern Cemetery, Easter Road, Edinburgh.
The campaign, launched in April. is proceeding really well, and we have managed to raise more than £25,000 of the £40,000 required to fund the project. However, we are still appealing for donations and support to help us get over the line in time for the grand unveiling and re-dedication of the restored monument in time for Remembrance Day 2025. To make a donation, simply click here to visit our campaign JustGiving page or the DONATE icon on this page.
This important historic memorial honours and remembers many of the first Veterans to have lived in Whitefoord House, Edinburgh, from SVR’s creation in 1910. The sight of funeral processions leaving Whitefoord House in the Canongate for Eastern Cemetery was a common one in those early years of SVR, as men who had served in a variety of Regiments, the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, were buried with military honours.
The handsome memorial, which stand 2 metres high and spans 7 metres, is a prominent feature of the cemetery, but sadly, in recent years the stonework, plaques and foundations fell into a state of disrepair, and the memorial was in urgent need of some TLC.
Enlisting the help of conservation experts, stonemasons and other specialists, we as a charity are now busy restoring the memorial to its former glory, so people can come and continue to pay their respects to these brave men who served their country and lived out their final years as respected Veterans at Whitefoord House.
If we surpass our fundraising target, we pledge to ring-fence any additional money raised for Heritage projects, including Phase 2 of Project Heritage in 2026: focusing on the burial ground of Veterans from our Rosendael residence in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.
For more information, or if you can help in any way, please contact our Head of External Relations, Colin Leslie
colin@svronline.org
