Reference
E/PS1/1/5
Title
Correspondence file, including the following information:
Date free text
1989 - 1990
Production date
From: 1989 To: 1990
Scope and Content
- Report of Harpur Trust (HT) Chairman 1988/89;
- letter from Local Education Authority (LEA) to HT regarding lack of resource rooms and school library refurbishment in LEA schools and invitation to HT to give financial help to North Bedfordshire schools if it so wished;
- letter from HT to LEA proposing financial assistance to send pupils of St.John’s Special School, Kempston, and Ridgeway Special School, Kempston, to Kielder Centre [Northumberland], also purchase of White Peris [Wales] Mountain centre by HT and lease to LEA and possible purchase of redundant LEA playing fields by HT for Bedford High School;
- correspondence and report regarding usefulness to pupils of Ridgeway Special School of attending Kielder Activity Centre;
- memo to Chief Education Officer regarding difficulties in HT purchasing White Peris due to title not being straightforward, the property still being subject to a charge under the Housing Act 1985, and HT sensitivity about questions asked by conveyancing solicitors;
- letter from HT expressing concern at length of time taken to complete the lease to LEA of White Peris;
- letter assuring HT that LEA would not divert funds away from LEA schools helped financially by HT;
- letter regarding proposal for HT funding for post of Environmental Education Officer post in County Planning Department
Level of description
item