Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    E/YM3/2/1
  • Title
    File re involvement with International Youth Year 1985, with material as follows:
  • Date free text
    1984 - 1987
  • Production date
    From: 1984 To: 1987
  • Scope and Content
    - agenda of County Steering Committee meeting [1985]; - minutes of International Youth Year Committee Meeting [1984]; - County Co-ordinator’s reports on International Youth Year [1985]; - correspondence with South Bedfordshire MP re rumour [untrue] that International Youth Federation was to donate £25,000 to Bedfordshire [1985]; - memo from County Co-ordinator to Maryland College, Woburn, course director re their respective rôles, following a difference of opinion [1985]; - minutes of County Steering Committee meetings [1985-1986]; - needs of participants at and programme for communication course “Youth Councils & Me” at Maryland College [1985]; - names and addresses of young chairpeople of International Youth Year committees in each Youth Service Area; - International Youth Year project development guidelines for all area co-ordinators [1985]; - International Youth Year project report [1985]; - guidelines and recommendations by County International Youth Year Co-ordinator to County Youth Officer re application for Representative Youth Project [1985]; - Youth Service submission for new Community Programme Project to assist International Youth Year groups to complete their original tasks and evolve into independent Youth Forums [1985]; - programme of Youth Festival & Conference at Luton Town Hall [1985]; - photocopied newspaper cutting re first Bedfordshire Youth Assembly at Luton Town Hall, with photograph of three members of Starlight Youth Club, Luton, staging a dance routine and an observation that left-wing slogans were much in evidence [1985]; - publicity leaflet re South Bedfordshire International Youth Year sponsored jailbreak from Dunstable Police Station to raise funds [1985]; - protracted correspondence and notes re North Bedfordshire International Youth Year Committee’s allegation of prejudice on the part of Area Youth Officer when interviewing a prospective candidate (a member of Bedford Gay Youth Group) for the post of North Bedfordshire International Youth Year Area Co-ordinator [no appointment made despite committee’s happiness to work with the candidate allegedly discriminated against], later correspondence involves the relationship between North Bedfordshire International Youth Year Committee and Youth Service, the former claiming independence, the latter that it was dependent on Youth Service [1985]; - letter advising of restructuring of Luton International Youth Year Committee [1985]; - notes of current state of deployments of Youth Service staff at various youth clubs in North Bedfordshire Area [1985]; - minutes of finance meeting of Bedfordshire International Youth Year County Co-ordinating Committee [1986]; - photocopied newspaper articles re International Youth Year fund-raiser’s condemnation of Mid Bedfordshire youth as apathetic due to Mid Bedfordshire International Youth Year Committee not wanting the money raised because the scheme it had run to provide housing for homeless young people had collapsed; - draft trust deed for intended Tavistock Trust to receive money raised during International Youth Year [1986]; - letter announcing disbandment of County International Youth Year Co-ordinating Committee at the end of International Youth Year [1986]; - notes of emergency County Steering Committee meeting to consider reservations of International Youth Year patron, Lord Tavistock, to establishment of Tavistock International Youth Trust ‘85 at which it was decided that the funds should be transferred to Bedfordshire Youth Association [1987]
  • Level of description
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