The Doreen Valiente Foundation

The Doreen Valiente Foundation was formed on the 6th March 2011 as a charitable trust and it took legal posession of the collection of artefacts etc that Doreen had left in her will to John Belham-Payne. It is now a Registered Charity No. 1178528 in England and Wales As well as the document preventing the collection from being split up, sold off or exploited for the gain of any individual, the charitable “objects” of the Foundation were declared in the Deed Of Trust as follows: “To protect artefacts which are important to the past, present and future of pagan religions” “To make the artefacts available for education and research”