(_a_) The provision of nurses for the sick and infirm.
(_b_) The purchase of annuities for the augmentation of any income
possessed by the recipients and produced by their own exertions.
(_c_) The cost of outfit, on entering into trade or service, of any one
under 21 years of age.
(_d_) Passage money and outfit in aid of emigration.
(_e_) Maintenance of any reading-room, library, or working man’s club for
the benefit of the parish.
3. The temporary relief in money by way of loan or otherwise to an
amount not exceeding £200 in one year in case of unexpected loss,
temporary illness, or sudden destitution. The pensions above mentioned
are not to be less than £10 and not more than £26 a-year.
The other half of the income of the charities is to be applied to
educational purposes:—
(_a_) In payments for the education of the children of poor inhabitants
of the parish who are deaf and dumb or blind, or suffering from physical
or mental infirmity, and who thereby aggravate the difficulties of their
parents or guardians; and
(_b_) To the advancement of children who are _bonâ fide_ residents in
Kensington, who have been scholars in a public elementary school, and who
have received certificates of good conduct from the managers, in the
following ways:—
(1) In apprenticing children who have attended school for five years, and
in providing a suitable outfit.
The apprenticeship premium is not to exceed £30.
(2) In payments not exceeding £10 a-year for the benefit of children who
have attended school for not less than five years, and who have attained
a standard which releases them from compulsory attendance. Such payment
to be made only while the child regularly attends a public elementary
school.
(3) Exhibitions for higher education of £30 a-year for five years.
(4) In providing lectures and classes for the benefit of scholars who are
attending or have attended any public elementary school in Kensington.
The trustees have power to raise and expend £50,000 in a building for the
purpose of such lectures or classes.
The trustees may give rewards of £5 to apprentices for distinguished
merit.
The trustees are bound, in administering the funds, to have regard to the
wants of the poor of every part of the parish of Kensington, and to
satisfy themselves that in each case the beneficiaries are, in respect of
poverty and character, deserving of help. And no part of the income is
ever to be applied, directly or indirectly, in aid of the poor rate of
the parish.
I hope you notice the anxious and thoughtful care which has been taken to
secure that the funds shall be properly administered in accordance with
the true intention of the original donors, and with the needs and
circumstances of the parish at the present time.
The gross annual income of the Campden Charity is now the magnificent sum
of £4,382 19_s._, all derived from the original investment of £465 in
land in the middle of the 17th century.
I have pursued the interesting subject of the Campden Charities as long
as the time at our disposal will permit, and your patience can endure. I
only wish further to impress upon you that the charity has an office at
the Vestry Hall, Kensington, and a clerk, Mr. R. C. Green, to whom all
applications can be made, and who is ready at all times to give
information to anyone properly applying to him for the same.
Those of you who care to go further into the subject, I recommend to
obtain the last annual report of the trustees, and to carefully peruse
the same.
Some of the most interesting work done under the auspices of the trustees
is that of the handicraft classes, both for boys and girls, in which
practical instruction and carpentering for the one, and cookery and
dressmaking and mending for the other, has for some time been given at S.
Clement’s Mission Room and All Saints’ School Room.
And I think that the powers lately given to the trustees to provide a
building and equipment for technical education have already been
exercised, and active steps are being taken for its establishment amongst
us.
Before finally leaving the subject, I may mention that in the year 1889
there were paid £570 in old pensions; £1,566 on the first head of
pensions and charitable aid; and £1,566 on the second head for education
and apprenticeship.