E/YM4/5/1

File re Sharnbrook Youth Club, Bullock's Barn, High Street, later Church Hall, including material as follows:

1980 - 1986

From: 1980 To: 1986

- Constitution of Management Committee; - agendas and minutes of Management Committee meetings [1980-1985]; - club accounts [1980-1984]; - report of extraordinary meeting to discuss a pram race [1980]; - agenda and minutes of Annual General Meetings [1980-1981]; - correspondence, notes etc. re impending eviction from Bullock's Barn and possibility of moving to Sharnbrook Upper School [1981]; - pro forma notes of Management Committee meetings giving those present, membership of committee, leader's reports and specific discussion topics [1982-1983]; - applications for grant aid towards premises running costs [1981-1983]; - notes of meeting to find a new Youth Leader [1983]; - pro forma reports of Part-Time Leader giving attendance of members at meetings, report on current activities, income and expenditure, future plans, leaders' absences, and comments by Area Youth Officer [1983-1984]; - letter re confusion over collecting prams for pram race and decision to forbid members to leave the premises to run errands [1983]; - report on situation and Management Committee of club [1983]; - report of Management Committee to Annual General Meeting [1983]; - letter from part-time Youth Leader noting, inter alia fears that Management Committee would not back her in deciding to exclude disruptive members, with Youth Service response [1983]; - club Newsletter "What's New?" [1983]; - notes on condition of premises at end of evening meeting and on standards of behaviour [1983]; - letter to Rector re changes desired by club at Church Hall, with later letter indicating progress on matters raised [1983]; - notes on members' feelings about continuation of club [1983]; - notes on future of club [1984]; - lengthy correspondence re £50 damage to Souldrop Village Hall following a fight, to which police had to be called, between rival gangs from "Castaways" Night Club and "Bedford Arms" Public House at a disco run by Youth Club [1984]; - Youth Leader's reports [1984]; - notes on areas of difficulty facing club [1985]; - club's statement of objectives [1985]; - correspondence re damage to Sharnbrook Upper School minibus inflicted by club members during a trip, including condemnation, in forthright terms, of youth leaders' lack of supervision [1985]; - letter making clear that club was not a Bedfordshire County Council Provided Youth Club with no Bedfordshire County Council employed workers and run by a committee of parents [1986].

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County Youth Service,
Bedfordshire County Council

social & welfare provision youth, youth clubs, SHARNBROOK, Sharnbrook Youth Club, Sharnbrook Bullock's Barn, Sharnbrook High Street, church halls, business, business correspondence, management, charities accounts, events, pram race, AGM (Annual General Meeting), buildings and land use, Sharnbrook Upper School, membership, youth leader, funding, employment, youth officer, exclusion, newsletter, behavioural difficulties, clergy, malicious damage, SOULDROP, village halls, affray, police, Souldrop Castaways Club, Souldrop Bedford Arms, disco, motor vehicles, travel, Bedfordshire County Council, parent