The Charitable Trust - Early Beginnings

Last year I highlighted the need to bring new and substantial funds into the game to finance amongst other things:

• A full-time coach/administrator.
• A fund to repair existing courts and add new courts to existing locations.
• A fund to enable the game to spread into entirely new venues and to a wider playing membership.
• Improved literature.

To this end, an application has been made by Philip Curtis (who has, magnificently, agreed to pay the legal costs involved), immediate Past President, and two other trustees, Dale Vargas, past Chairman and John Rimer, to form a charitable trust. This trust will promote many activities in developing the Game, including those listed above. A charity will give us access to completely new areas of funding and will allow individuals and organistaions to take advantage of the concessions in making donations.

We are at an advanced stage of correspondence with the Charity Commissioners. We hope that we shall hear a positive outcome within a few months.

Richard Black
Chairman
The Eton Fives Association
October 1992