Minutes of meetings of the General Purposes Committee
Production date
1953-1968
Description
Signed minutes of meetings from the seventy-seventh meeting held on 9 March 1953 to the three hundred and twenty-fifth meeting held on 19 April 1968.
Matters discussed included: giving approval for the sealing of documents using the Common Seal of the Society; North Devon and West Somerset floods surplus clothing; disaster relief; formation of National Societies in the Persian Gulf; investment powers; honours and awards; Branch appointments; Queen Alexandra sanitorium fund; young chronic sick; training in Overseas Branches; Morris Grange; civilian relief in Korea; proposed formation of a new South Yorkshire Branch, 1954; superannuation arrangements for National Headquarters; salaries, subsistence and travel of field officers overseas; welfare work in Switzerland; Hungarian relief; County of London Branch scheme for fundraising by processing used metal bottle tops, 1957; Algerian refugees in Morocco and Tunisia; World Refugee Year 1958; National Headquarters administrative expenses; policy for national and local publicity to increase fundraising and recruitment; participation in joint appeals or in appeals for other organisations; appeals policy after natural disasters; report of the Greater London working party; National Headquarters premises; and special appeals by the Disasters Emergency Committee, 1965.
Matters discussed included: giving approval for the sealing of documents using the Common Seal of the Society; North Devon and West Somerset floods surplus clothing; disaster relief; formation of National Societies in the Persian Gulf; investment powers; honours and awards; Branch appointments; Queen Alexandra sanitorium fund; young chronic sick; training in Overseas Branches; Morris Grange; civilian relief in Korea; proposed formation of a new South Yorkshire Branch, 1954; superannuation arrangements for National Headquarters; salaries, subsistence and travel of field officers overseas; welfare work in Switzerland; Hungarian relief; County of London Branch scheme for fundraising by processing used metal bottle tops, 1957; Algerian refugees in Morocco and Tunisia; World Refugee Year 1958; National Headquarters administrative expenses; policy for national and local publicity to increase fundraising and recruitment; participation in joint appeals or in appeals for other organisations; appeals policy after natural disasters; report of the Greater London working party; National Headquarters premises; and special appeals by the Disasters Emergency Committee, 1965.
Collection Type
Archives
Level of Current Record
file
Catalogue Number
RCC/1/33/1