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  • The Establishment (1978) and Administration of the Royal Jubilee Trusts Committee for County Durham (Ref: D/X 1033/1-6)
  • General Publicity including Press Releases (Ref: D/X 1033/21-24)

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Records of the Royal Jubilee Trusts and the Prince's Trust given on
27 April 1993
Acc: 2148(D)

Royal Jubilee Trusts and Prince's Trust

The King George V Jubilee Trust was created in 1935 at the time of the Silver Jubilee of King George V when the results of the Silver Jubilee appeal were vested into a capital fund. The Trust made grants from the fund's investment income, mostly to the main voluntary youth organisations. Since 1979 the Trust supports training courses for youth leaders, endeavours to meet the needs of young people among the increasing numbers of young single homeless, in ethnic minorities, on housing estates, in situations where they may become involved in vandalism and violence. The Trust also supports work which benefits young people by encouraging them to participate in creative arts and outdoor pursuits in order to build up self confidence and to lead to a fuller and more useful life. [In 1984 this trust nationally distributed around £314,000 annually.]

In 1977 the Prince of Wales launched a similar appeal to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. It raised over £16 million of which £75,894 was raised in County Durham which was a little in excess of its target. From the amount raised in the county, £26,398 was made available for use as immediate grants. The money raised formed the capital fund of the trust and its investment income is paid out in grants, at the Queen's specific request 'to help young people to help others'. [In 1984 this trust nationally distributed around £930,000 in grants to support projects in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth which fulfill the trust's aims.] In 1978 it was decided that the Queen's Silver Jubilee Trust should be administered jointly with the existing King George Jubilee Trust under the title of the Royal Jubilee Trusts.

The Prince's Trust was established by the Prince of Wales in 1976, to help by way of advice, support and relatively small financial awards, young people between 14 and 25 who are socially, economically or environmentally disadvantaged or physically handicapped and who produce their own proposals aimed at setting up self-help activities which contribute to their welfare or personal development; these projects may sometimes enable them to help others. The young people must make the application themselves either individually or as a small spontaneous group but not as an existing organisation and should not anticipate further funding from the trusts after the initial grant.

The Royal Jubilee Trusts were established with the Queen as Patron and the Prince of Wales as Chairman of the Administrative Council. A director (Harold Haywood) and staff serve the council in organisation and distribution of funds. The organisation in the country was county-based and headed by the Lords Lieutenant of the counties.


In County Durham a committee was appointed consisting of:

The Lord Lieutenant: The Right Honourable the Lord Barnard, T.D.
Honorary Trust Representative: Lt.Col.C.F. Hutchinson, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.L.
Five agents - drawn from different areas of the county to help in assessing
projects and to serve a term of three years in the first instance:

Councillor Mrs. S. Brown
Mrs. S. Nicholson
Lt. Col. Sharland
E.T. Amos, esq.
M. Jebson, esq.

Honorary Secretary: Peter Dawson, esq., (Chief Executive, Durham County Council)
Honorary Treasurer: J.M. Wright, esq., (County Treasurer, Durham County Council)

In December 1978, Col. Hutchinson completed his period of office and was succeeded by Col. Sharland. The agents later included T.L. Holmes, esq. and W. Morley, esq. (replacing Colonel Sharland and M. Jebson, esq.).

In 1981, it was decided to include several young people as representatives to work with the agents. These representatives changed quite frequently as they passed the age limit or departed to further education or jobs elsewhere.

In 1981, the committee gave assistance in implementing the Royal Wedding Souvenir Fund for the disabled.

Originally, the Prince's Trust operating in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland used to consider applicants well down into Durham as there was no separate Prince's Trust organisation in Durham. After the decision to administer the Prince's Trust jointly with the Royal Jubilee Trusts in April 1983, a joint committee of Tyne and Wear and Northumberland was established excluding Durham. In October 1984, a new joint committee for the Prince's Trust and the Royal Jubilee Trusts was established representing Cleveland and County Durham.

As the new committees were no longer purely county-based Lords Lieutenant were excluded, so Lord Barnard was no longer associated with the Trusts.

The new committee consisted of:

Chairman: The Right Rev. Gordon Bates, Bishop of Whitby
Vice Chairmen: Mrs. Sheila Brown, former mayor of Darlington
Christopher Payne, esq., Q.P.M., D.L., Chief
Constable of Cleveland
Committee Secretary: W.M. Morley, esq., former agent of the County
Durham R.J.T. Committee
Applications Secretary: Miss Hilda Hewitt of I.C.I. Middlesbrough, former Applications Secretary for Cleveland
Treasurer: Simon Polley, esq., Cleveland County Scout Council
Members:
Ellis Amos, esq., Durham City, and former agent of Durham R.J.T. Committee
Richard Crosswaite, esq., D.L., of Tees Towing Co. Ltd., former Honorary Representative for Cleveland, also involved with headquarters' work.
Peter Dawson, esq., Chief Executive of Durham County Council
Paul Dodds, esq., Middlesbrough
M. Frazer, esq., Youth and Community Section, Department of Education Durham County Hall
Mrs. Margaret Hoggarth, Cleveland Council for Voluntary Service
Tom Holmes, esq., East Stanley, former agent, Durham .R.J.T. Committee
Bob Longridge, esq., Assistant Director (Support Services), Social Services Department, Durham County Hall.
Mrs. Sarah Nicholson, Brancepeth, former agent for Durham R.J.T. Committee
Lt. Col. Geoffrey Sharland, O.B.E., D.L., former Honorary Representative for County Durham R.J.T. Committee
Col. Mike Stewart, O.B.E., D.L., General Manager, Phillips-Imperial Petroleum, Middlesbrough
David Vasey, esq., Sherburn Village (former young representative on County Durham R.J.T. Committee)
Tom Walter, esq., Headmaster Brinkburn Comprehensive School, Hartlepool
Miss Helen Worthy, Trevelyan College, Durham (former young representative on County Durham R.J.T. Committee)
Ex-Officio - Liaison Officer: Iain McMillan, esq., of Trustee Savings Bank, Scotland

[Col. Sharland served as local Applications Secretary for Durham until he left the area in February 1985 when he was succeeded by Ellis Amos, esq.]

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