Carnegie United Kingdom Trust

Abstract

THE twenty-ninth annual report of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust covering the year 1942 shows that the operations of the Trust have been more concerned with the development or the completion of old schemes than with the initiation of new ones. In regard to youth services, the system of club equipment grants has been continued in England, Wales and Scotland, and has also boon extended to Northern Ireland. The year's payments amount to £5,695 and substantial sums are still outstanding in respect of premises not yet taken up in full ; the 1942 promises at December 31 stood at £12,168. Shortage of equipment due to the supplies situation and the scarcity of trained leaders are likely to present serious difficulties to any largo expansion of the youth services at present. The limited revival of the former club library policy has met with Very encouraging responses, and grants in aid of the headquarters administration of the national associations of boys' clubs, girls' clubs and young farmers' clubs were maintained in 1942 at the same rate as in the previous year. Notice of the discontinuance of these grants has now been given, but further assistance has been promised to the Eighteen Plus movement during the three years 1943-45. Grants for the training of leaders, of £1,200 to the National Association of Girls' Clubs for local supervisors of training and £1,000 for bursaries, were continued from 1941. Grants were also made during 1942 in aid of the administration of the, Land Settlement Association, the Museums Association, the National Council of Social Service and the Rural Development Council of Northern Ireland, and towards the maintenance of the three central libraries. In regard to music and drama, the work of the Musical Education Committee has continued on the same plan as in 1941 but on a larger scale. The work of the Joint Committee for Drama also showed an increase in expenditure, and the report comments on the remarkable way in which musical and dramatic activities are not merely surviving the War but even extending and. fortifying themselves.