British Red Cross Society annual review for 1988
Production date
1989
Description
The report contains information on: work in Britain including an overview, facts and figures, care in the community, emergency planning, first aid cover, education and training and youth; Red Cross people including Annette Kerr, Dame Sheila Quinn and honours for 1988; the Red Cross worldwide including the power of an idea, international aid, government contributions, international tracing services, and the Disasters Emergency Committee; and a directory of Branches, homes and sheltered accommodation.
The financial report for 1988 was produced separately.
Some of the main events during 1988 were: Aberdeen Branch responding following the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion; the naming of a British Rail locomotive as 'The Red Cross'; a British Red Cross project to provide an aquatic ambulance along the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua; and the busiest year so far for the Disasters Emergency Committee with appeals for famine in Ethiopia, flooding in Sudan and Bangladesh and hurricanes in Nicaragua.
The financial report for 1988 was produced separately.
Some of the main events during 1988 were: Aberdeen Branch responding following the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion; the naming of a British Rail locomotive as 'The Red Cross'; a British Red Cross project to provide an aquatic ambulance along the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua; and the busiest year so far for the Disasters Emergency Committee with appeals for famine in Ethiopia, flooding in Sudan and Bangladesh and hurricanes in Nicaragua.
Collection Type
Archives
Level of Current Record
item
Catalogue Number
RCC/1/29/65