About the Manderson Trust

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The Manderson Trust is a registered charity that is run solely by volunteers and maintained by contributions from friends of the trust and other charitable organisations.

History:

In the early 1980s, Dennis Manderson had a dream to provide facilities for disabled anglers. He himself loved fishing and being disabled himself found it very difficult to find anywhere suitable to fish. In 1986 it became possible for the lakes at Over in Cambridgeshire to be bought. In 1990, The Manderson Trust for the Disabled was registered as a charity, and so work began to make the dream come true.

The Trust is run and maintained entirely by a small group of unpaid volunteers. With the help of these volunteers, through fishing matches, donations, scrounging goods and services, we raise money to maintain and improve the facilities.

Two lakes have been combined to make one large lake and another lake has been cleared of weed. Pathways have been grassed, trees and bushes are thriving and extensive planting has been done. A building called 'The Centre' has been constructed which provides a telephone, toilet facilities and a rest room where hot and cold drinks, in fact a complete meal can be prepared.

In 1994 Dennis Manderson died, but a memorial garden has been created at the Lakes in his memory, and his dream will continue.

Trust Objectives:

The Manderson Trust is dedicated to provide free fishing facilities, with easy access, for disabled people and fishing at reasonable rates for non-disabled.

Disabled people can become full members. An annual fee of £10.00 would entitle full members to Newsletters and information of what’s going on at the Trust.

Helpful Friends:

South Cambridgeshire Council

Awarded the Manderson Trust with a grant to help us with our New Building Project, the new building was in great need to house all of the maintenance equipment.

The building is now well on it’s way to completion. Click here for photographs showing progress of work, more will be added as work progress.

Britannia Fire and Security

The Trust and all of its members and users would like to thank Britannia for their generosity providing the Trust with a first class product that will keep the Trust and its property safe and secure for the foreseeable future.

R G Carter

A Cambridge based company who helped the trust with free advice on the best materials for our building project who supplied us with the main materials together with a donation. The Manderson Trust is very thankful to R G Carter for all the help and advice that was provided.

Hanson’s

The Manderson Trust is very thankful to Hanson’s for supplying all the sand that’s required for our building project, they have also been very helpful helping the Trust with advice on maintaining the water levels at the Trust.

Ridgeons of Cambridge

Help was needed with the supplying of cement for the building project.
Ridgeons have helped the Trust before with another project when we were erecting fishing platforms for our wheelchair users in 2002/3.
Again we thank Ridgeons who have helped us with the building project supplying us this time with cement at a reduced price.

CO-OP Society

A very welcome Donation of £500 has been donated towards the erection of new fishing platforms at one of the lakes at the Trust; the money was used hiring a digger and the purchase of materials needed to complete the work. The wheelchair users will be pleased with the extra freedom this project has brought them.

MARSHALLS

The Manderson trust would like to thank Marshalls for there generosity in supplying the trust with all the slabs that are needed to complete the slabing of all the swims at the trust. The Trust would also like to say many thanks again for the block paving that has been donated by Marshalls so that we can complete our projects for the blind sensory gardens with all these building materials we hope to get started soon.

NATIONAL FLOORING OF PETERBOROUGH

The generosity of this company has help the Manderson Trust with new flooring in the main lodge and toilets that is not only non slip but will last for years. The work was completed in half a day and by the company and completely free of charge all that we can say is many thanks from the members and the board of trustees for a job well done.

Bennets Of Over

The Manderson Trust would like to thank Mr Martin Bennet for the help in installing the new electrics to our new store and for his continued support with the trust and for all the time he has given to help the Manderson Trust for free.

Makro of Ipswich

The trust has found yet another sponsor to one of our fishing matches this is makro cash and carry which has helped the trust on charity causes before the date for the Makro challange is the 24th of June.