At age 15, Henman was severely ill and found himself bedridden for a year with a fever and forced to leave his studies at Caterham School.
He then moved to London, where he found work running lighterage on two dilapidated ex-army barges on the River Thames.
The original aims of the trust, since its inception in 1986, were to continue funding causes supported by Henman during his lifetime but its remit has since changed focus.
After ten years the trust's trustees felt a need to restructure and a consultant was brought in to recommend more effective grant making.
His list of Beneficiaries and benefactors, contained in a small diary[3] that was discovered after his death, shows the enormous diversity of his interests and it is for this reason that the trust today has little restriction on the nature of the charities it will support.