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Our founder
The Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust was founded with the money from the sale of the antiques and works of art of Sylvia Phyllis Adams. These artefacts, including renaissance bronzes, plaquettes, majolica work, ivories, furniture and mirrors, were the remarkable collection of one lady.
Sylvia Adams had been a professional collector and her career was at its peak in the 1930s and 1940s. She had collected for one person in particular - a Colonel Boscowan who was based in Tanzania and whose collection is now housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. She ended her life unable to manage her own affairs. Alan Morris and Jerry Golland set up the Trust in line with her stated wishes. Her eye for quality and business like approach are mirrored in the approach the Trust takes to its grant making.
As a product of a lifetime's collecting the Trustees have been able to distribute in excess of £5million over the last six years and to manage the charity's resources so that the Trust can continue to make an impact on the lives of people in need in the years to come.
Our trustees
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| Chairman Jerry Golland |
Tim Lawler |
Mark Heasman |
Our staff
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| Kate Baldwin – Director |
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| Lynda Vijh – Director of Finance and Asset Manager |
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| Lesley Mullin – Trust Administrator and PA to the Director |