Abstract
TWENTY-FIVE years have elapsed since Mr. Carnegie founded, with a capital of ten million dollars, his Trust “for the improvement of the well-being of the masses of the people of Great Britain and Ireland”, and the Trustees preface their report for the year 1938 with a brief retrospect, in the course of which the allocation of their revenues since the Trust's foundation is summarized under the headings: libraries £1,393,000, physical welfare and playing fields and play centres £471,300, rural development and social service (including land settlement) £541,800, organs and other musical and dramatic activities £330,500, adult education £66,600, other activities £339,500. In pursuance of Mr. Carnegie's injunction to remember “that new needs are constantly arising as the masses advance” the Trustees aim at fulfilling the role of a pioneer body, financing no enterprise for more than a limited period, during which its sponsors are expected to contrive means for maintaining it, should its continuance appear expedient, without further recourse to the Trust. This principle plays a decisive part in the framing of the programmes of constructive experimental work which are drawn up by the Trustees once in five years and which pre-determine the bulk of the expenditure of each year's budget.
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The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. Nature 144, 187–188 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144187c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144187c0