When did the Reeves Trust start?

Herbert Reeves set up the charity in 1945 as the second world war was drawing to a close. He defines the class of beneficiaries as the inhabitants of Leatherhead parish. 

What are the purposes of the Reeves Trust?

The purposes of the charitable trust are set out in the 1945 Deed of Conveyance under which several individual properties were together transferred to the original trustees to be held on the following trusts:

“The Trustees shall hold the hereditaments … either to provide a site for the erection of a Parish Hall or for any other charitable purpose or purposes calculated to promote the spiritual moral intellectual or physical improvement or welfare or the reasonable recreation advantage or benefit of the Parishioners of the Parish Church of St Mary and St Nicholas at Leatherhead in connection with the said Parish.” 

The Parish Hall need not stand still if change would be beneficial. The trust deed envisages that the buildings may be “repaired pulled down altered or re-built in order to render the same better adapted for the purposes herein mentioned”. 

This offers exciting possibilities and the trustees are engaged in planning for ways in which the Parish Hall site could be developed in the future to better meet the changing needs of Leatherhead parishioners.

Click here to download a copy of the 30 January 1945 trust deed.

The Reeves Trust facility enables

• affordable spaces in which to meet

• a place to celebrate with family and friends

• somewhere to let your hair down

• opportunities to keep fit, connect, have fun and find friendship and support

• places for personal development

• somewhere to learn new skills

• safe level spaces for babies and toddlers to play

• grand piano

• performance space

• rehearsal space for music and drama

• spacious catering kitchen for events large and small

• large well-lit hall with a sprung dance floor

• meeting room with av kit

• an office that serves the Leatherhead Parish Church

• the venue for the annual Christmas card market

• local market and coffee shop, Martha’s Market

• adjacent parking for up to 48 vehicles