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The amount is received by the Churchwardens and
Overseers, and appropriated by them in the purchase of great
coats and cloaks, which are distributed to the poor at Christmas
in every year.
Truss's Charity.
About £50 a year in pensions of £5 each in December
to poor and deserving widows of 60 years of age at least, whose
husbands may have been in a respectable sphere of life, and
which said widows shall have lived at least three years in the
parish, and never have received parochial relief. Trustees, the
Vicars of the three interested Ecclesiastical Parishes. The total
income of this Charity is £149 3s., and is shared equally by
Christ Church, Spitalfields; St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green; and
Camberwell.
Channel Memorial Fund.
Raised in 1856, to commemorate the active Christian
usefulness of the late Miss Ann Channel. The amount, £200,
is invested in the Three Per Cent. Consols, and the interest
divided for clothing amongst the girls attending the National
School, and the poor of the district. One of the local trustees of
this Charity was the late Rev. Isaac Haycroft, Vicar of St.
Chrysostom's, Hill Street, Peckham, and the Rev. J. Hazell is the
other.
John Whitfield's Charity.
John Whitfield, Esq., by Will dated 24th April, 1826,
bequeathed the sum of £666 13s. 4d. reduced Three Per
Cent. Annuities to the Master and Warden of Dulwich College
and their successors, upon trust to lay out the interest thereof
annually in bread and potatoes, or other necessaries, and
distribute the same in the months of December, January and
February in each year unto and among such 20 poor widows in
the Hamlet of Dulwich as the said Master and Warden should
in their discretion consider most to stand in need of such
assistance, and in proportion to the number of their respective
families and wants. Scheme Charity Commissioners dated 14th
December, 1883.