In the early 1990’s Tryphon Kedros donated the amount needed to start the Guilford Youth Centre in Corfu. The Centre was founded by a group of parents, of various nationalities, to provide extra-curricular activities and sports that were not included in the national curriculum but were deemed essential to a full education. Music, drama, handicrafts and many sports were offered at the Centre; and at a later date, foundation courses for students to enter British universities. Mr Kedros took an immense interest in the progress and success of the Guilford Centre, and his generosity extended to the publication of a quarterly magazine called Poetry Greece. 
Valerie Osborne was instrumental in the creation of the Guilford Centre. Her daughter Zoe Valerie, privileged and inspired by her mother’s initiative and perseverance is the founder of the Spring Academy, taking the idea of the Guilford Centre into a new era. 
Mr Kedros’ patronage has now spread out to the Spring Academy, offering financial assistance to build the Digital Spring Academy. His strong interest in education and culture has come full circle once again supporting the next generation of what he helped be born in the last century!
His niece Anna Diamantopoulou, with her children back then, and still now has followed all these activities with keen interest and has been supportive together with her uncle in this new venture.
We bare farewell to our beloved Tryfon who died in spring ‘21.