Appeal on behalf of Pearson's Fresh Air Fund by Anna Neagle , C.B.E.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
In 1892 the late Sir Arthur Pearson, Bt., started to send parties of poor children from the slums of industrial towns into the countryside for a ' breath of fresh air' and from that action came the birth of Pearson's Fresh Air Fund.
It grew rapidly, and in 1908 King
George V and Queen Mary visited an outing in Epping Forest. King George V then became first Patron of the Fund, to be succeeded in due course by King George VI. Her Majesty the Queen is now the Patron of the Fund.