| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/F/109 |
| Title | [NUWT Somerset, Gloucester and Wilts County Association records] |
| Date | 1930 - 1960 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (General Secretaries NUWT) and members of the Somerset, Gloucester and Wilts County Association including Ethel Mace and Margaret A. Jones regarding the organisation and management of the County Association.
The correspondence covers:
Reports of visits from NUWT Organisers and Central Council members detailing how they felt the branch was being run and how the meetings were being conducted
Concerns regarding coaching of children for the 11plus examination
Provision of nursery education
Arrangements for County Association meetings
Agendas and reports of County Association meetings
Reports of campaign activities undertaken by branches and individual members of the County Association
Letters sent to members retiring from the teaching profession, wishing them well and encouraging them to retain association with the NUWT
Update of news from individual members, for example news on illness in their family, retirement from the teaching profession, resignation from the union, and other changes of circumstances
News of the death of Miss Tapp, of the Somerset, Loucester and Wilts County Association, 1956
Notification of changes of address
Subscription to 'The Woman Teacher'
Membership applications and renewals
Enquiries regarding obtaining grants from Local Education Authorities for continued professional development
Requests for NUWT literature
Letter of thanks from a teacher for a loan from the Mutual Aid Fund
Reports of fund-raising and social events
NUWT representation on the Bristol Teachers Consultative Committee
Financial problems of a member due to heavy college fees for her son, who received no grant due (she thinks) to him being a conscientious objector, 1952
Requests and arrangements for visits from NUWT Organisers to areas in the County Association
Sick pay regulations
Enquiry regarding eligibility for Headships
Enquiries regarding pensions
Difficulties in keeping in touch with members due to evacuation
Sympathies sent from the County Association on the death of Ethel Froud, 1941
Enquiries to the Provident Sick Fund
Arrangements for an Equal Pay Luncheon in Bath, 1937
Organisers reports detailing visits to various schools in the Somerset, Gloucester and Wiltshire area and reporting on the reactions of women teachers to the NUWT |
| Extent | 2 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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