The Chipperfield Community Fund is alive and well again.
As you may have read in the Parish Councils Annual Report, published last month,
the money from the old Parish Chest is now in the care of the Dacorum Community
Trust. It has taken some time to transfer the funds because of the difficult process
of bringing an anonymous trust into the public domain. The Parish Council and the
Dacorum Community Trust have worked with the Charity Commission to make sure that
everything has been done properly. The Dacorum Community Trust will look after it
as a restricted, named fund only to be used to benefit any person or organisation
in need within the Parish of Chipperfield. The fund is small, currently nearly £4000,
but hopefully this will be added to in the future. A summary of its accounts will
be published annually in Chipperfield News.

The Dacorum Community Trust has been raising and distributing money locally since
1976. It is a registered charity (No. 272759) and a founder-member of the now nation-wide
Community Foundation Network. Its trustees all live or work within the area and
have a wide range of expertise. It is supported both by local people and by locally
based companies such as Kodak. We are now actively seeking more sources of funds,
both to distribute immediately and to help build up an endowment fund. This will
ensure that local organisations and individuals will know that there is always somewhere
they can turn to at times of crisis or in case of need.

If you would like to contribute to the ongoing work of the Trust or make an application
for a grant, either for yourself or someone else in need, please contact Margaret
Kingston at the Trusts office at 48 High Street, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 3AF (01442
231396) E-mail mk@dctrust.org.uk