Funding the UK’s first hospice
Established by Dr Cicely Saunders, the pioneer of the modern hospice, St Christopher’s was the UK’s first hospice and opened in 1967. We gave £10,000 towards the cost of the building equipment.
The letters of Charles Dickens
The Pilgrim Edition of “The Letters of Charles Dickens” is regarded as an outstanding scholarly achievement.t. The twelve volumes were published between 1965 and 2002. The first volume contained 1,059 letters that Dickens had written between 1820 and 1839...
Supporting the repair of churches through the Historic Churches Preservation Trust
By the middle of the 20th century, many parish churches in the UK were in a poor state of repair. The Pilgrim Trust supported the formation of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust with its largest grant to date of £100,000. Now the Historic Churches Preservation...