BEACON Hill School was the recipient of a generous cheque from the Yarrow Lecture Trust Fund.  The Yarrow Trust was established in 1921 but has recently been wound up and is distributing its funds to organisations around the Hindhead area. The trust has been providing local lectures over a considerable period of time, but, in spite of some very interesting speakers – including a Chelsea garden designer and the Chief Constable of the Northern Irish Police (an ex Beacon Hill School pupil) – numbers attending have been declining.  As a result, the trustees agreed to wind-up the fund and Beacon Hill School was among members of the local community invited to bid for some of the proceeds.  The money will enable some of the larger projects, planned for the school's outdoor environment, to go ahead, including the renovation of the pond.  Pupils are also looking forward to welcoming Ruth Wheeler from 'Sculpt It' back to the school to work on a new mosaic 'Welcome' sign, featuring the school's logo.  In addition the fund will provide a trophy for an annual award for design and technology at the school. Headteacher Jenny Dennett said: "We greatly appreciate this financial input, which will go towards our continuing efforts to improve our environment.  "It gives us the opportunity to access some specialist help which will enable these projects to get a great start."   The beneficiaries from the fund were Beacon Hill School £5,000; Beacon Hill Nursery School £820; The Hub Cafe at the United Reform Church (to establish an Internet Cafe) £1,850; Hindhead Scouts £732 and Hindhead Beavers £642. Secretary to the trustees Chris Grimes addressed a meeting to celebrate the event at Beacon Hill School, on Monday, and told guests about the history of the trust. The Yarrow Lecture Trust was established in 1921 by the late Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, who lived from 1842 to 1932, and who started a shipbuilding dynasty in London. He opened a shipbuilding yard at Folly Wall, Poplar, on The Isle Of Dogs, in 1865, to build steam river launches. He ventured into military vessels from the early 1870s and in 1892 he built the first two destroyers for the Royal Navy. In 1906 he moved his yard to Scotstoun on the River Clyde. Sir Alfred was knighted in 1916 and the Yarrow Baronetcy was created in Homestead, Hindhead. When he died in 1932 the baronetcy was inherited by his son Harold and on his death, in 1962, it passed to his grandson Eric, who still holds the title today, aged 88. Sir Alfred was a true philanthropist donating to a convalescent home on The Isle Of Dogs; residences for soldiers' widows in Hampstead; a school in Berkshire; a home and hospital for children in Broadstairs, as well as many other good causes. In addition he set up two trusts in Hindhead – first of all, in 1917, for the village school and in 1921 for the village club (now The British Legion). The latter included provision for lectures and when the village hall was sold off to the legion in 1939, the Yarrow Lecture Trust Fund was established in its own right. Mr Grimes added: "I have amongst the records I inherited the minute book from 1917-1947, in respect of the trust for the village school; the original Trust Deed for the trust; the Trust Deed for the village hall and lecture fund in 1921; the amended trust documents in 1939 (when the village hall transferred to the legion) and documents in 1958 and 1980 relating to the lecture fund – this 1980 document being the governing statute on which we currently operate. "When the trust is finally wound up with The Charity Commission is was our intention to lodge all of these documents, and our current minute book, with the Haslemere Museum." He said that one villager, Kitty Tharratt, remembered lectures in the village hall back in her school days, in the early 1930s when a cine camera was used to present the topic for the evening.