History of the trust
Below is the transcript of a lecture given by Jennet Campbell (Honorary Secretary 1978-2007) to the Cornwall Association of Local Historians' Annual Conference at Newquay on February 4th May 2007.
THE RADFORD SISTERS AND THE RADFORD TRUST
At nearly 80, I feel as if I am likely to be of more use here as an historical exhibit than a speaker but nonetheless I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk about my first cousins once removed, Maisie and Evelyn Radford.
They were brought up near Yelverton in a house that looked south to the estuary and north to Dartmoor, the younger daughters of a gentleman-chandler, John Radford, who had escaped the narrow evangelical society of Victorian Plymouth to build himself a fine house and indulge in a passion for watercolour landscapes which took him all over the southwest on a bicycle ‘from the Wrekin to Surrey’ carrying sketch pad and paints. 
The girls were educated at home and later in their teens went to Felixstowe School on the east coast where they nearly froze but flourished.
In the early years of the last century Maisie, the older born in 1885, studied singing and violin, first in London then for 2 years in Berlin with Hans Moser, who was the second violin player with the Joachim Quartet. Later she abandoned singing herself but encouraged others always in choirs. She 
was a poet and Bard of the Gorseth. Evelyn, born in 1887, went to Newnham College, Cambridge, to read classics – she was by then a talented pianist and linguist, played the oboe, fenced, and was one of the Neo-Paganists of whom Rupert Brooke was best known – an intellectual, artistic, liberal group not quite so notorious as the Bloomsbury lot but, like them, reacting against Victorian restrictions in the early years of the new century.