Policy

It is not the Trust’s policy to try to acquire any item that the owner does not wish to relinquish. The Trust is therefore NOT threatning and NOT aggresive.

It is the Trust’s policy to try to acquire any appropriate item(s) which would otherwise be lost, destroyed or fragmented.

The Trust is a trust expressly so as to reassure donors that their gifts will be safely preserved for, and appreciated by, future generations.

Gifts in Kind

If you have something that you would like to give to the Trust please contact us.

Gifts of Money

If you would like to give the Trust some money to help us with our work please make your cheque payable to The Cobbold Family History Trust. All donations are acknowledged and recorded in the following categories:

Benefactor	Gifts up to	£99
Special Benefactor	Gifts	£100 - £499
Foundation Benefactor	Gifts of and over	£500

Acquisitions

If you see something offered for sale which you think the Trust should consider purchasing please contact us urgently.

Legacies

If you have something that you would like to give to the Trust, but not during your lifetime, please include in your will a gift “to the trustees for the time being of The Cobbold Family History Trust dated 23rd May 2004 to hold as an accretion to the Trust Fund as defined therein” This wording may also be used for pecuniary legacies.

Loans

If you have something which is of interest to the Trust but do not wish to donate it please consider offering it to the Trust on loan so that it may be used by the Trust for research and exhibition purposes.

Practical Help

The Trust needs volunteers to write 200–300 word biographies for inclusion in the family tree. These may be original or they may be (for instance) previously published obituaries.

Whilst having volunteers write biographies is a help to the Trust there is a more important benefit. A son or daughter writing sensitively about their parent(s) is likely to be much more accurate and to paint a much better picture than the work of a more distant 3rd party. So, where the circumstances are right please volunteer and it follows that if you don't like what has been written you should submit an alternative.