E/YM1/2/3

File of “yellow copies”, i.e. outgoing correspondence, from County Youth Officer

1987

From: 1987 To: 1987

including correspondence re: - background information on Youth Service in response to Rotarian interest in youth work enterprises at Kempston Youth Centre; - advice to give Youth Workers re precautions against spreading AIDS; - refusal to register Bedford & Kempston Drum & Trumpet Corps because of it being a single activity group; - application to Mid Bedfordshire District Council to use Biggleswade Swimming Pool for County Youth Service Swimming Scheme; - possibility of hiring Lewsey Family Centre, Luton, to Leagrave Boys’ Club; - reply to County Treasurer re contributions of Kempston Concert Band to Hastingsbury Upper School & Community College, Kempston; - leader of Clapham Youth Club applying to local MP rather than Area Youth Officer re grant for building works; - report of Tandem Theatre Company presentation on Anti-Sexism to Caddington Youth Club and possible future use of company; - congratulations to Bedfordshire Youth Theatre on production of “Cindarellarock!”; - revision to Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Guide for the Handicapped; - summary on agreements re use of Dell Farm, Whipsnade, by Youth Service for camping; - training for the disabled; - congratulations to Stotfold Young People’s Club re “Late Late Christmas Show” production; - acceptance of resignation of Part-Time Youth Worker, with criticism of the Worker’s actions as unprofessional; - possibility of Youth Service taking Leicester Polytechnic Youth & Community Work Students to give them experience; - whether letting of Bedford Youth House to an Italian group broke regulations (i.e. whether it was a community rather than a youth group) and whether Guru Nanak Gurudawara, using Haylands Sports Hall, Bedford, were a registered youth group; - refusal of grant aid to Stotfold Youth Club under Capital Programme in favour of Dunstable; - inclusion of Bedfordshire County Council’s policy statement on Bedfordshire Against Apartheid as an agenda item at Youth Officers’ Meeting; - request by Bedford Afro-Caribbean Self-Help Association for Bedfordshire County Council grant aid to pay telephone bills; - sale of hot pies and pasties by Ampthill Youth Club, attached to Redborne Upper School, in order to provide that facility for school pupils; - reply to Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth Workers & Community Centre Wardens (Employers Panel) re Youth & Community Workers, including opposition to use of unqualified youth and community workers on grades above that of trainee; - comment on analysis of Local Education Authority responses to Department of Education and Science Youth Service Circular with notes of areas in which Bedfordshire needed further resources; - possible syllabus for a co-operative management learning programme for women within the Youth Service; - response to student outlining Bedfordshire position on part-time youth workers being involved with determining the pattern of training courses and other strategic initiatives; - thanks to Property Service on completion of Toddington Youth Centre; - response to complaint about poor supervision of animal care weekend at Netherswell Manor [Gloucestershire]; - payment of directors in Bedfordshire Youth Theatre; - dismay that Bedfordshire Youth Theatre spent £660 on a 4 day residential stay at Irchester [Northamptonshire] when Pilgrim House was available and would only have cost £200; - payments to Northamptonshire County Council following thefts by Luton Youth House participants in a visit to Wellingborough.

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County Youth Officer,
Rotary Club,
Mid Bedfordshire District Council,
County Treasurer,
Bedfordshire County Council

youth education, social & welfare provision youth, political correspondence, business correspondence, youth worker, Rotarians, Kempston Youth Club/Centre, KEMPSTON, AIDS, Bedford & Kempston Drum & Trumpet Corps, BEDFORD, Mid Bedfordshire District Council, BIGGLESWADE, swimming, Luton Lewsey Family Centre, LUTON, Leagrave Boys' Club, LEAGRAVE, County Treasurer, Kempston Concert Band, Hastingsbury Community College, Clapham Youth Club, CLAPHAM, Bedford Members of Parliament, youth officer, money, building work, Tandem Theatre Company, sexism, Caddington Youth Club, CADDINGTON, Bedfordshire Youth Theatre, drama productions, guide books, handicap, Whipsnade Dell Farm, WHIPSNADE, camping, rules and regulations, training, disability, Stotfold Young People's Club, STOTFOLD, resignation, Leicester Polytechnic, student, work experience, Bedford Youth House, Italians, Bedford Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Bedford Haylands Sports Hall, Stotfold Youth Club, DUNSTABLE, Bedfordshire County Council, Bedfordshire Against Apartheid, Afro-Caribbean Self Help Association, receipts, telephone calls, catering, pies, Ampthill Youth Club, AMPTHILL, Redborne Upper School, warden, employment, community worker, Local Education Authority, Department of Education & Science, employment of women, Toddington Youth Centre, TODDINGTON, animals, supervisor, Netherswell Manor, Director, Irchester, Pilgrim House, Northamptonshire County Council, theft, Luton Youth House, Wellingborough