Unemployment Assistance Board (Cardiff ) Sports and Social Club Papers,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

Scope and Content

Records of the Unemployment Assistance Board (Cardiff) Sports and Social Club, 1935-1945, including committee minutes, correspondence, annual reports and financial accounts, and programmes; papers relating to Unemployment Assistance Board (Wales) eisteddfodau, 1938-1939; and papers concerning the Cardiff Channel Dry Docks and Pontoon Co. Ltd, 1927-1930, and the Civil Service Clerical Association, 1938. There are no records of the Board's official activities.

Administrative / Biographical History

The Unemployment Assistance Board was set up in 1935, as a result of the Unemployment Insurance Act 1934, to administer means-tested support for the unemployed. It was organised into regions, areas and local districts, staffed by civil servants. The Board was abolished when assistance was replaced by Unemployment Benefit in 1948. The Wales region organised eisteddfod events in Cardiff in 1938 and 1939. The Cardiff district ran a Sports and Social Club for its staff, administered by a committee, arranging athletic and social events.

Arrangement

Arranged by type.

Access Information

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Mr Robert Court, Faculty of Music, University College, Cardiff, 1986.

Note

The Unemployment Assistance Board was set up in 1935, as a result of the Unemployment Insurance Act 1934, to administer means-tested support for the unemployed. It was organised into regions, areas and local districts, staffed by civil servants. The Board was abolished when assistance was replaced by Unemployment Benefit in 1948. The Wales region organised eisteddfod events in Cardiff in 1938 and 1939. The Cardiff district ran a Sports and Social Club for its staff, administered by a committee, arranging athletic and social events.

Title supplied from contents of fonds. The archive includes earlier material which have become grouped with the Sports and Social Club records.

Other Finding Aids

A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Minor Lists and Summaries, 1987, p. 117, at the National Library of Wales.

Archivist's Note

May 2003

Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used to compile this description: NLW, Minor Lists and Summaries, 1987; The Coalfield Web Materials Website (www.agor.org.uk/cwm), viewed 19 May 2003; Department for Work and Pensions website (www.dwp.gov.uk/), viewed 19 May 2003.

Conditions Governing Use

Usual copyright regulations apply.

Appraisal Information

Action: All records donated to the National Library of Wales have been retained..

Custodial History

The records camwe into the possession of Mr Robert Court, Univeristy College, Cardiff, accompanied by unrelated papers of the Cardiff Channel Dry Docks and Pontoon Co. Ltd.

Accruals

Accruals are not expected.

Related Material

Further papers relating to the Unemployment Assistance Board are National Library of Wales, Dr Thomas Jones Papers; London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives Division, Markham 6-9.

Additional Information

Published

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales