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28 February 2010
Bourne Trust helps Evergreen press release is now online.
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Background and explanation of the workings of the Trust
The establishment of the Trust results from the benefaction of the well-known and respected Bourne farmer and businessman Thomas Leonard Pick, known to all as “Len”, who died suddenly at Peterborough District Hospital on the 29th January 2004 aged 94. Len was educated at Bourne Grammar School, which he left at the age of 14 to join the family Coal Business, of which he subsequently undertook the management from the age of 16. Later he also undertook the management of the family wholesale potato merchants business. Finally he also became a successful farmer before finally retiring in the early 1970’s.
Len and Freda   About Len
Len married his childhood sweetheart Freda in 1935 and remained happily married until her passing in 1991. Len was passionate about the town in which he was born. He was elected to then Bourne Urban District Council in 1936 as its youngest ever Councillor at the age of 27 and remained a member until 1948 when he relinquished his position due to the many demands upon his time due to his business commitments.
 
Len was well known for his support of Bourne Town Football Club and also the Bourne Pigeon Club. What is not so well known and totally in keeping with his character was his continued support during his lifetime of many other organisations within the town including the Outdoor Swimming Pool and other charitable causes.
Len's character
He was a character with a developed sense of humour and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the town, its inhabitants and characters. He adhered to a set of values, which in these modern times, some might consider to be irrelevant. He was known as a hard but fair taskmaster, expectant always of the highest standards, but above all a man respected by all those with whom he came into contact.

Len died without issue and was determined to ensure that his estate was to be utilised for the benefit of the town that he loved so much. Accordingly he decreed that the residue of his estate would be left to the Charitable Trust that is proud to bear his name and which will continue to undertake his wishes to ensure that the town that was his home continues to benefit from his philanthropy and benefaction.

 
A registered charity for the general benefit of the townspeople of Bourne • Registered Charity No. 1106598
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