Endowed Charities are charities which exist to carry out the terms of bequests, usually within parishes, and hold some assets and investments in order to do this. Schemes are legal documents by which the Charity Commission may amend, replace or amplify a charity's governing document.
Approved by the Board of Charity Commissioners on 12 August 1892.
Created by the Vestry Clerk, Solicitor and Clerk to the Trustees of the United Charities.
The book was compiled by R. T. Baines and L. M. Langston, Clerk to the Wardens, at the request of John Wylde, Esq., Warden of the Great Account, 1910-1913.
The British and Foreign School Society was founded in 1808 as the Society for Promoting the Lancastrian System for the Education of the Poor and was renamed in 1814. The Society built Borough Road building in 1816 and sold it to the South London Polytechnic Institute Council in 1890 in order to become the main premises of the Borough Polytechnic Institute.
Records of the Society are held by Brunel University.