E/YM7/11/3

File regarding Girl’s Life Brigade 1st Kempston Company, later became 1st Kempston Girl’s Brigade, includes the following:

1959 - 1982

From: 1959 To: 1982

- application for use of premises, Robert Bruce Secondary Modern School, hall, gymnasium and swimming pool, includes: details of subscription; membership numbers and time and place of meeting; - Youth Organisation Annual Review, outlining principal activities, including: drill; games and citizenship; - correspondence regarding parent’s requests for the arrangement of training in self-defence, due to the “alarming attempts on young girl’s in the winter evenings”; - correspondence regarding Residential Youth Leadership Course, includes: application for assistance towards course of training and list of applicants; - booklet entitled 'The Girl’s Brigade Preparation For Leadership', course made up of 4 stages to be introduced at the age of 14 years, includes requirements and syllabus, with the motto “love, learn and lead”;

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Girls' Brigade, KEMPSTON, Girls Life Brigade, business correspondence, buildings and land use, Robert Bruce County Secondary Modern School, gymnasium, swimming, fees/charges, membership, education youth, general, LEISURE ACTIVITIES, general correspondence, martial arts, training, youth leader, funding, Booklet, syllabus