| Description | The FA Youth Trust was established in October 1972 with the principal aim of enabling and encouraging pupils of schools and universities 'to play Association football and other games or sports and thereby to assist in ensuring that due attention is given to the physical education and development of such pupils, as well as the development and occupation of their minds' (E.213). Thompson was one of the original Trustees.
The Charity Commissioners were satisfied that the trust was of a charitable nature, but in 1973 the Inland Revenue challenged this status. The subsequent legal proceedings were lengthy, the case eventually going to the House of Lords where judgment was given in favour of the trust in 1980.
Most of the surviving material relates to these legal proceedings and includes correspondence, notes of meetings, opinions of counsel, affidavits and judgments. |