Scottish Central Council Branch minutes of council meetings

Production date
1956-1961

Description
Minutes of meetings from 25 January 1956 until 25 October 1961. The volume contains the minutes of Council.





Matters discussed included: appointments and resignations in the Council and its Committees/Sub-Committees; future work of the Scottish Branch; Mobile Training Unit; financial accounts of the Branch; Scottish Standing Conference on Voluntary Youth Organisations; Swiss Sanatoria (NHS) Scheme; Hurricane Janet; King George V Memorial Leadership Training Courses; outdoor training - Operation "Surprise Packet"; Caledonian Shield and Scottish Cup competitions; Training Hospital at Erskine; co-operation with coastguards; Voluntary Aid Detachments personnel; Highway First Aid Service; Scottish Junior Supplement; Junior activities; publicity activities; appeals; National Hospital Service Reserve; Scottish National Bood Transfusion Association; Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics; refugees in camps in Jordan; aids for the disabled; training courses, classes and examinations; Emergency and Disaster Schemes; civil defence; proposed home for refugees in Shanghai; holidays for the disabled; Duke of Edinburgh's Award; Home for the Young Chronic Sick and Workshop for Crippled Boys; care of the homeless; casualty collection; civil defence training for Society members; nursing auxiliaries; Services of Dedication, St Gile's Cathedral Edinburgh; pilgrimage to Lourdes; Junior gifts to overseas; training of BRCS instructors; relief for refugees in Hungary; Red Cross Sunday; Red Cross Conferences; Trefoil School for Physically Disabled Children; Scottish Old People's Welfare Committee; Westerlea School; International Red Cross Conference; Red Cross Week; Scottish Ambulance Service; expansion of training scheme at Erskine; opening of Red Cross House, Largs; new handbook for County Branches; exchange of young people with the USSR; World Refugee Year; hospital librarians; penny-a-week scheme; instructors' certificates; image of the British Red Cross; reorganisation of National Headquarters Committees; first aid for motorists; re-formation of the Orkney County Branch; Stanley Shield competitions; Quartermaster's Stores and Members Shop.





There is an alphabetical index at the front of the volume.
Collection Type
Archives
Level of Current Record
file
Catalogue Number
RCB/2/38/36/12

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