And although the manager, Max McLennan, has pledged that the home will not close, he concedes that unless other sources of funds are found, Rosendael's activities will have to be scaled down.

The problem is that the service provided at Rosendael does not fit Dundee City Council's criteria when allocating Supporting People funding.

Mr McLennan fears that the shortfall because of this will amount to £118,000.

Although hopes rose with the announcement of the Scottish Government's new Scottish Veterans' Fund, these were soon dashed when it became clear that the fund will have available only £127,000 over the next three years.

Mr McLennan said that Rosendael would be severely restricted and would have to dig very deep into its pockets and look to other funding sources.

One problem with squeezing Rosendael into the Dundee City Council 'strategic fit' is the age range of residents, from 22 to 93. Mr McLennan added that Rosendael is unique, and therefore does not fit any pre-conceived pattern.

One irony is that recently, the 75th anniversary of Rosendael was celebrated by a function whose guests included Lord Provost John Letford - who has been personally a supporter of Rosendael for many years - as well as Lord and Lady Dalhousie.

Rosendael was gifted to Scottish Veterans' Residences in 1932, together with an endowment of £5,000, by Miss J. C. Gibson in memory of her brother, Mr John Normansell Kyd, who lost his son, Frank Proctor Kyd, on the Somme in 1916, and whose home it used to be. The name Rosendael is Flemish, as the Kyd's manufactured jute in Belgium, an industry closely connected with the City of Dundee. They returned to Dundee and in 1868 constructed Rosendael as their town house.