| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/17/41 |
| Title | 'Physical Efficiency Campaign' |
| Date | 1937 - 1938 |
| Description | Various typed copies of reports from the National Fitness Council for England and Wales (NFC) and the Board of Education (many marked 'not for publication before...) discussing various outcomes and aims of the 'National Fitness Campaign'. Subjects covered include:
Open Air Activities
Reports of events and festivals to promote physical fitness
Progress on the National Fitness Campaign
Criteria of fitness
News of summer holiday fitness camps and recreational training courses
Suggestions for building and equipment for the modern gymnasium
Swimming baths - basis for grant-aid
Fitness grants
Loan of camping equipment
'Fitness' film campaign for Britain
Extracts from speeches by members of the Board of Education and the NFC, including transcript of the Prime Minister's speech from the inauguration of the National Health Campaign in 1937
Notification of the allocation of grants and funding
Provision of full-time physical training instructor/leaders
Lists of the members of the various Area Committees of the NFC as set up under the Physical Training and Recreation Act, 1937
Report of the first meetings of the NFC
'National Fitness - the first steps', publication from the NFC, 1937
Correspondence between Ethel Froud (NUWT), the National Council of Women for Great Britain (NCWGB) and NUWT members regarding:
Notification of a NCWGB Resolution on 'Character Training and Physical Fitness'
Typed summary of answers recieved from NUWT Branch Secretaries regarding Physical Training
Detailed letters from NUWT Branch Secretaries outling the physical training which is in place or planned for, in their schools and regions
NUWT Central Council reports on their investigations into Board of Education reports and plans for physical training and recreation
Typed extracts from Hansard, questions to the House of Commons regarding physical training for boys
Press cuttings regarding:
Physical training
Links between physical fitness and national duty
Reports on plans for establishment of colleges for the teaching and training of instructors in physical education
Physical training at military schools
Reports of the establishment and work of the NFC
Board of Education Grant Regulations and Memorandas on:
'Social and Physical Training Grant Amending Regulations', 1940
'Physical Training and Recreation' - Memorandum explaining the Government's proposals for the development and extension of the facilities available', 1937
'Clothing and Shoes for Physical Training', 1936
'Physical Education', 1936
'Memorandum on the provision of medical inspection and treatment by Local Education Authorities for boys and girls attending authorised courses of instruction', 1936
N.B.
The National Fitness Council for England and Wales had its origins in the Physical Training and Recreation Act, 1937, where provision was made for the appointment of an Advisory Council for England and Wales, "to investigate and advise His Majesty's Government with regard to matters relating to the maintenance and improvement of the physical well being of the people by means of exercise and recreation," and a Grants Committee on whose recommendations the Board of Education could make grants for various purposes specified in the Act.
The two bodies though separate worked in close association and were known as the National Fitness Council. |
| Extent | 2 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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