We supported a Save the Children Fund for emergency open-air nurseries in ten ‘distressed and crowded areas’. The anticipation was after a few years these nurseries would be taken over by the Local Authorities.
With shifting foundations, Durham Castle was in urgent need of work to save the building from sliding into the River Wear. Our first grant of £25,000 went towards saving this historic castle.
With an endowment of £2 million, American philanthropist, Edward Harkness, founded the Pilgrim Trust. This large gift captured the UK’s imagination and the King and Queen received the Harknesses at Buckingham Palace. The Trust’s first Trustees were Stanley Baldwin,...
