The Trust's Aims
The NINEVEH Charitable Trust supports a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the General Public, with an emphasis on promoting better understanding of the environment and countryside, whilst facilitating improved access, education and research.
The Charity Commission website quotes the original 1968 objectives as:
- The health and welfare and education of the general public
- To promote the study and appreciation of agriculture, horticulture, silviculture, land management, ecology & conservation and preservation of the countryside, and
- In furtherance of the above to make payments to any person or charitable body whose objects include the above objectives.
These aims were restated in a Deed of Declaration in 1992 because the Trust's Founders increasingly appreciated the adverse effects that modern economic pressures and agricultural practices can have on the countryside.
The Deed of Declaration thus emphasises donations that encourage preservation of the countryside rather than health and welfare:
- The promotion of the study and appreciation of agriculture, horticulture, silviculture and land and estate management
- The promotion of the study and appreciation of ecology & land conservation
- The promotion of the study and appreciation of forms of agricultural practice or land management that would encourage the preservation of the countryside.
- In furtherance of any of the objects aforesaid to make payments to or for the benefit of any person or charitable body whose legally charitable objects include any of the objects aforesaid."
Following the death of Mrs James in 2000, no new commitments were made and the Trustees began rebuilding the funding capital.
With the death of Professor James in Jan 2007, granting has restarted (see Grants Awarded page). The Trustees have used his legacy to recapitalise the fund, greatly improving its financial position to give us much greater scope to support the objectives of the Trust in the future.
