This file contains 1 item:

• 'Historical perspective on social enterprise as a public health initiative', 2018

This file contains 1 bundle:

• List of Committee members, 2019
• Agenda and note of the meeting on 23 August 2018
• Agenda and note of the meeting on 13 November 2018
• Agenda and note of the meeting on 8 March 2019
• Agenda and note of the meeting on 7 June 2019 and two samples of comics produced by Magic Torch Comics
• Update for cancelled September 2019 meeting
• Agenda and note of the meeting on 6 December 2019

The SECS Committee was set up with members from Glasgow Caledonian University's (GCU) Archive Centre and Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health; the Centre for the Social History of Health and Health Care (GCU and University of Strathclyde); and Community Enterprise in Scotland. The Committee met four times a year to discuss all activities relating to the Social Enterprise Collection (Scotland), of which the Scottish Government funded project was one strand. Regular agenda items include cataloguing and preservation work; discussions around donations of material to the Archive Centre; social media outputs; oral history interviews; exhibitions, events and workshops planned and completed; John Pearce Memorial Lecture; funding; committee membership.

This file contains 4 documents:

• Proposal to the Scottish Government, February 2018 (part removed for data protection)
• Grant offer letter, 8 October 2018
• Business plan, 16 October 2018
• End of project report, April 2020

This file contains 1 bundle of 8 items:

• Introduction to the SECS information sheet with exhibition tour dates for 26 April 2019 to 5 November 2019, April 2020
• Exhibition postcard, March 2019
• Four-fold exhibition leaflet, June 2019
• GCU Archive Centre postcard
• Exhibition feedback slip, April 2019
• Powerpoint presentation slides on the Social Enterprise Collection (Scotland), April 2019
• Social enterprise timeline activity sheets, April 2019
• Community business snakes and ladders activity sheet, April 2019

This file contains 1 bundle and 1 digital item:

• Conference programme with introduction to the History of social enterprise in Scotland exhibition
• Scottish social enterprise timeline activity sheet with hand annotated additions
• 2 completed exhibition feedback slips
• A history of social enterprise in Scotland information sheet with exhibition dates
• 3 photographs of the exhibition banners and tables with resources at the venue
  -Digital photograph of exhibition in Inverness Impact Hub

The exhibition was held on 19 June 2019 at Inverness Impact Hub, 67a Castle Street, Inverness.

This file contains 5 items:

• Glen Buchanan interview audio recording and transcript, recorded May 2019
• Esther Breitenbach interview audio recording and transcript, recorded September 2019
• Ken Milroy interview audio recording and transcript, recorded July 2019
• Duncan Leece interview audio recording and transcript, recorded July 2019
• Liz Gardiner interview audio recording and transcript, recorded November 2019

These items are held in the Dr Gillian Murray papers and can be accessed from this link.

This file contains 1 folder and 8 large leaflets:

• Leaflet, ‘Short emergency scheme of work, to teach classes the explanation and measurements of Food Controllers’ allowance per head’
• Food economy handbook - fragile
• Typescript copies of Ministry of Food recipe collections including use of hay box; economical cuts of meat; one day’s meals within the rations; meat substitutes; breakfast or supper dishes (1 duplicate); flour substitutes (1 duplicate); puddings, March 1917 - May 1917
• Hints to cookery teachers
• Points for speakers
• Set of ‘Waste not, want not’ leaflets including MF 38 ‘All about soups’ (1 duplicate); MF 39 ‘Delicious stews’ (1 duplicate); MF 37 ‘How to use potatoes!’ (1 duplicate); FE 68 ‘Eighteen very cheap dishes’ (1 duplicate), all fragile
• Bundle of miscellaneous typescript recipes
• Typescript list of wild foods used as salads and as alternatives to spinach or kale, asparagus, tuberous vegetables.

The Food Economy Campaign was established by the Ministry of Food in 1916. A women’s service held food economy meetings in every town and village, set up over 1200 local Food Economy Campaign committees to encourage food saving through propaganda, persuasion and education.

This file contains 1 folder:

• International Federation of Home Economics, Eighth international congress information sheet and blank application form
• Handwritten notes of talk given by Isobel Gibson at the congress
• Typescript copy of the resolutions for voting
• Congress list of members
• Congress general reports
• International Federation of Home Economics
• ‘Home Economics in Scotland’ exhibition programme, Moray House Training College, 12-17 August 1953
• City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh, ‘Programme of Reception, Dance and Concert’, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 12 August 1953
• Order of Service, St Giles’ Cathedral, 16th August 1953, 9am
• Invitation to Miss I S Gibson and guest, for the Garden Party, Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh, 17 August 1953, 3.30pm to 5.30pm
• Organising Committee farewell luncheon menu, 18 August 1953, Royal British Hotel, Edinburgh, with signatures on back
• Central Youth Employment Executive booklet, ‘Domestic science and dietetics’, Choice of careers, new series no. 13, HMSO, Revised edition, April 1953
• Ministry of Education booklet, ‘A guide to the educational system of England and Wales’, pamphlet no. 2, HMSO, reprint 1952
• Scottish Education Department booklet, ‘Public education in Scotland’, HMSO, reprint 1953
• International Fedreration of Home Economics ‘Statuts’ leaflet, in French
• French editions of Home Economic bulletin ‘L’Enseignement ménager’, no. 3, Septembre 1953 and no. 2, Juin 1954
• Congress delegate’s folder

This file contains 1 folder:

• Constitution and rules of the Queen’s College Branch of ALSCI
• Scottish Joint Negotiating Committee for Teaching Staff in Further Education, ‘Conditions of Service for staff in Central Institutions’
• Queen’s College, Glasgow, ‘Conditions of service relating to Academic staff’
• Agendas, minutes and some papers of the ALSCI Joint Consultative Committee meetings held in the College, 19 January 1984 - 29 January 1986
• Queen’s College, Glasgow procedures including, disciplinary and grievance; maternity pay and leave

The Joint Consultative Committee was set up to enable consultation between the governors of the College and the College branch of ALSCI.

This file contains 1 pamphlet:

• Published copy of "Cheap diets representing a week’s meals", reprinted September 1934

Published by William Collins Sons and Co Ltd, Glasgow.

This file contains 1 folder:

• Published copy of "An economical budget of the family with menus and recipes", February 1940 (pamphlet 1) (1 duplicate)
• Published copy of "Some recipes for war-time dishes", April 1940 (pamphlet 2) (1 duplicate)
• Published copy of "More recipes for war-time dishes using home-produced foods", June 1941 (pamphlet 3) (1 duplicate)
• Published copy of "Food preservation in war-time", c1940 (pamphlet 4) (1 duplicate)
• Published copy of "Food preservation in war-time", second edition, c1941 (pamphlet 5)

The pamphlets were written to help people to cook healthy meals on rations and make the best use of home-produced and alternative foods during World War II. All the pamphlets were published by the University of London Press Ltd.

This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM and ICOF
• Copies of loan applications to ICOF by workers' co-ops
• Drafts of an ICOM pamphlet on 'A Scottish Mondragon'
• Reports and correspondence with regional councils on co-operative solutions to unemployment
• Correspondence relating to the Industrial Common Ownership Act (1976) and the establishing of the SCDC

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and SCDC
• ICOF Annual Report and Accounts, December 1977
• World Conference: development and industrial cooperatives, preliminary programme 2, June 1978
• Appeal from Beechwood College for funding from ICOM Companies and individual members, September 1978
• ‘First of May’ Edinburgh Books Collective Newsletter No.7, 12 August 1978
• Article by Rita Rhodes 'Worker co-operatives and the unions', September 1978

This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and notes, financial statements and newsletters relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and the SCDC
• Conference programmes & reports
• Discussion papers on the state of the co-operative movement
• Printed pamphlet ICOF information for loan applicants
• Printed pamphlet featuring three workers co-ops that were founded in nineteenth century: Equity Shoes (Leicester); Walsall Locks; Leicester Printers
• Open University, Co-operatives Research Unit: correspondence, agendas and joining forms for 'Commonwork Seminars – The role of advisor to Co-operatives' September 1979
• SCDC Clydeside Co-operatives Development Project: description of project and job description for two development officer posts; press release for launch of project, August 1979

This file contains 2 folders of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Worker co-operation
• Co-operatives in UK, Ireland, France
• Government assistance
• Sunderlandia (Builders) Ltd
• Mondragon co-operatives
• Tax
• Local enterprise trust for Swindon
• Liverpool University Settlement industrial development project
• Industrial common ownership movement (ICOM)
• 'Industrial relations review and report', no. 101, April 1975
• Co-operative economy
• Ferguslie Community Workshop
• Unit 58 Print Services Ltd
• Financial management
• Co-operative Development Agency bill
• 'Public Enterprise', no. 16, April 1979

This file contains 1 folder of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Community development case studies
• Social economy
• Community business and social enterprise activities in UK, France, Sweden and Italy

This file contains 1 folder of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Articles and reports on legal aspects of community enterprise
• Community business structures
• East Middlesbrough community venture
• Niddrie community shop
• Dundee community business
• Law reform (Scotland) act 1990
• Correspondence regarding the Legal Structures Working Party of Community Business Scotland Ltd
• ICOM (Industrial Common Ownership Movement Limited) factsheets and leafletsregarding legal structures, 1990-1991
• ICOM guide, 'In good company: incorporating a voluntary organisation - the options'
• ICOM survey, 'Model rules of co-operatives', 1993
• Community Business Scotland draft model memorandum and articles of association, December 1999

This file contains 3 bundles of newspaper cuttings regarding:

• Business development
• Housing
• Social conditions, poverty and crime

This file contains 1 folder of newspaper cuttings on a range of environmental topics including the following examples:

• Agriculture, horticulture and forestry
• Global warming and ozone layer
• Environmental activism
• Corporate policies
• Environmental economics
• Alternative energies
• Waste recycling
• Pollution

This file contains 2 folders on a range of topics including the following examples:

• SSAA for social economy and community-based organisations
• SEEN social added value approaches
• Assessing effectiveness
• Presentation notes
• Social return on investment
• ACTIONAID
• Social auditing and community benefit
• Furniture Resource Centre social audit
• Social auditing for voluntary organisations

This file contains 1 folder on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Community Workshop on Economic Development
• Auditing social needs
• Sustainable development indicators
• Community Enterprise Support Unit (Central Region) Ltd social audit liaison meeting
• Social audit
• Veggies
• Willowtown Childcare project
• Grangetown Pet Store
• The physical environment, accounting and local development
• Community enterprise
• Audit process

This file contains 2 folders on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Social auditing
• Integrated approaches to sustainability
• Sustainable development indicators
• Transforming the transnationals
• Traidcraft plc
• Comment NVQ Unit 1 and 7

This file contains 1 folder on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Social auditing
• Quality standards
• Ethical business
• International Association of Social and Ethical Assessment, consultation paper
• Stakeholder theory
• Ben and Jerry's
• Shared Earth
• New Economics Foundation, social audit conference papers
• Body Shop
• Total Coverage Ltd

This file contains 1 folder on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Social accounting and auditing
• Quality and evaluation
• Rural Environmental Action Project, social audit project
• Measuring impact
• All Saints Action Network Limited
• Maaroochy Shire Council, Australia, strategy report
• Phoenix community Stores Ltd, social audit statement

This file contains 1 folder on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Presentation notes
• City of Helsinki, social balance sheet
• Balanced scorecard
• NGOs, civil society and accountability
• Social Enterprise East Midlands, social accounting pilot
• Leicester and County Co-operative Development Agency social audit
• Social accounting clusters in Scotland and England
• Train 2000 Ltd
• Social return on investment

This file contains 1 folder on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Social Accounting and Audit Research Project briefing
• Embedding quality and impact tools in the social economy
• Quality assurance systems
• Measuring environmental impacts
• Traidcraft plc
• Charities and public benefit
• Social return on investment
• Social Reporting Programme evaluation

This file contains 1 sheet of paper

• Headed paper of the West End Training School of Cookery , 346 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, with notes of student results written in pencil on the back, c1900-1908

This file contains 4 newspaper cuttings:

• Obituaries for Margaret Black with a printed transcipt of the cuttings

This file contains 5 folders:

• Correspondence, 1 December 1969 - 18 December 1973, regarding establishment of an Academic Council; composition of the Governing Body; Central Institutions (Scotland) Regulations 1973; amendments to the 'Articles of association' (folder 1)
• Correspondence, 23 January 1974 - 10 December 1974, regarding Central Institutions (Scotland) Regulations 1973; amendments to the 'Articles of association'; appointment of governors; nominations and elections of the Governing Body; membership of Governing Body Committees (folder 2)
• Correspondence, 7 February 1975 - 13 November 1975, regarding election of members of the Academic Council from academic staff; nominations for representatives from external institutions; lists and contact details of governors; nominations and election of new Governing Body; membership of committees; list of members of Academic Council; Academic Council 1977 elections; (folder 3)
• Correspondence, 28 September 1979 - 15 June 1983, regarding election of Chairman of the Governing Body; nominations and elections of governors; letters to new governors; list of governors and contact details (folder 4)
• Correspondence 21 December 1983 - 20 January 1989, regarding nominations and elections of Governing Body 1984-88; letters to new governors; list of governors and contact details (folder 5)

This file contains 1 folder:

• Letter from E Hamilton to Miss MacKirdy regarding request to supervise during an examination, 17 June 1909
• Letters of enquiry regarding students of the West End School of Cookery, 7 October 1911 and April 1925
• National Council for Domestic Studies First Annual Report, 24 October 1919
• Programme for the Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy jubilee exhibition of students' work on 12 March 1925
• Programme of the 'Educational Institute of Scotland, Annual Congress, Glasgow, December 1925'
• Handwritten letters from staff and students to Miss Melvin, 1925-1927
• Handwritten list of people and their addresses, for the College VAD, 1928
• Programme of the Scottish Federation of Societies, 'Tenth autumn week-end school' on 'Women's work and opportunities in the twentieth century', held at Glasgow University on 3-6 October 1930; handwritten notes of Miss Melvin who spoke at the event.
• Typescript copies of Scottish recipes
• Memorandum for Special Committee of Advisory Council on Education in Scotland re technical education outwith the Universities, c1945
• 'Elma and Helen Story - A recollection by GER Young', 1948
• Memorandum by the Convener of the Property and Finance committee in certain propositions connected with the College, May 1934
• 'Meat Research Report', Osborne-Peacock Co Ltd., Research Department, Glasgow, 1936
• 'Womens International News', Vol 35 No. 6, April 1941
• Typescript list on College headed paper 'Foods from which vitamins should be secured'
• College leaflet 'Muirhead scholarships in dietetics'
• Typescript copy of newspaper cutting, 'Meal in a pill: Doctor's wonder extract from cotton seed', June 1935
• 'Memorandum regarding request by the Scottish Education Department that the College should undertake another course for the training of canteen cooks and in addition should undertake a course for the training of cooks for the school meals service'
• Memoranda regarding meeting with the Advisory Council for Education in Scotland and Bursaries, December 1943
• 2 printed business envelopes: from James C Morgan, press and commercial photographer, Glasgow (with red one penny stamp, 1931); from John Swain and Son Ltd, photo-engravers, Glasgow.
• 2 comical pencil sketches: 1 titled 'simple household repairs' drawn on the back of a business card for Douglas Hewat with '27.7.26 Cadora' handwritten in pen; 1 titled 'preparing scrambled egg in a modern kitchen' drawn on the back of a Rotary Club menu dated 27.7.26
• Letter from Clementine Churchill, 10 Downing Street, London, expressing thanks for a contribution to her 'Aid to Russia' Fund, December 1941
• Handwritten toast list for an Edinburgh College of Domestic Science Old Students' Guild event with Miss Melvin, OBE, JP, as guest speaker

This file contains 3 folders including letters regarding:

• Miss Melvin's presentation fund
• Insurance claims for accident of member of staff and damage to the mobile van
• Disposal of "Wartime Recipes" book stocks by the publisher
• Purchasing surplus equipment from the Ministry of Supply
• Letter from Princess Elizabeth's Lady-in-Waiting and Miss Gibson's visit to Buckingham Palace
• Discontinuing the pre-nursing course despite shortage of nurses

Recurring topics described at sub-series level.

This file contains 2 folders including letters regarding:

• Shipping Federation courses
• Staff attending conference 'The training of dieticians'
• Bridgeton Women's Institute Fund
• Mrs Inglis Pollock's Fund and Miss Mackinnon's gift towards the new library
• Proposed Matron-Housekeepers' course
• Exhibition of home dyeing
• Wool summer school at the Scottish Woollen Technical College, Galashiels

Recurring topics described at sub-series level.

This file contains 2 folders including letters regarding:

• Staff attendance at the International Congress of Dietetics in Rome
• Scottish Education Department circular on reducing petrol and oil consumption by 10%

Recurring topics described at sub-series level.

This file contains 1 folder including letters regarding:

• Appointment of Juliann Calder as Principal and difficulties to cover teaching duties
• Invitation for students to afternoon party at Holyrood
• Student complaints about paying lunch fees, led by the Student Representative Council President
• Scottish Education Department circular on social survey of students in Central Institutions
• Former Students Association honouring Miss Gibson as Honorary President and making a presentation to her at a luncheon

Recurring topics described at sub-series level.

This file contains 1 folder including letters regarding:

• Formation of the committee by the Scottish Education Department, points for consideration for committee meeting on 17 May 1956
• Isobel Gibson's views in relation to grading for teachers of domestic science
• Discussions with the Principals of the Edinburgh and Aberdeen colleges of domestic science
• Evidence given by the Principals at the committee meeting
• Follow-up correspondence

This file contains 2 folders:

• Annual estimates forms, letters and handwritten notes, including summary of requisitions; estimates forms A-G; notes explaining calculations; letters from Scottish Education Department regarding award of grant. March 1965 - March 1970 (folder 1)
• Annual estimates forms, letters and notes, including letters from Scottish Education Department requesting estimates; "The Times" article 'The Prospect of Britain'; handwritten notes in preparation of estimates, July 1970 - April 1972 (folder 2)

This file contains 1 folder:

• Annual submissions of proposals for courses to be offered by the College. Form FE85 with details of course code, title, full or part-time, award
• Approval letters from the Scottish Education Department

This file contains 1 folder including letters regarding:

• Proposed HND Consumer and Business Studies, approval, course regulations, exam papers and timetable, assessment and validation
• HND Consumer Studies, validation
• Farewell to SCOTBEC

This file contains 1 folder including letters regarding:

• CNAA monitoring visits Autumn 1983
• Relationship between CNAA and National Assessment Bank (NAB)
• 3 year degree in Physiotherapy
• Report 'Future development of CNAA's academic policies at undergraduate level: consultative paper', CNAA, May 1983

This file contains 1 folder including letters regarding:

• CNAA consultative document, 'Quality and Validation'
• Future relationships with Institutions
• Institutional review visit 1986-87
• Candidates for research degrees
• Revised BSc Dietetics and proposed BSc Social Nutrition

This file contains 1 folder including letters regarding:

• Register of specialist advisers
• Membership of CNAA committees
• Candidates for research degrees
• Institutional reviews
• BSc (hons) Physiotherapy
• 'Report of the Review of the CNAA' , June 1990, Department of Education and Science
• Employment based learning
• CNAA committee for Scotland
• BSc (hons) Health Studies

This file contains 1 folder:

• College memos and letter to Graeme Reid regarding insurance of private vehicles for business use
• Scottish Education Department circulars on travel and subsistence allowances
• Copies of travel and subsistence guidance for staff by East of Scotland College of Agriculture, Dundee College of Technology, Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology and Queen Margaret College
• Letter to Miss Calder from the College Staff Association regarding travel expenses

This file contains 1 booklet:

• 'College health and safety, organisation and policy, September 1990'

This file contains 2 documents:

• Bound copy of A Milson, A R O'Rourke, G A Richardson, H F A Rose, 'Strategies for the management of declining financial resources', a paper for 'Resource Management Conference , 14 May 1981, Discussion group A : briefing document'
• Copy of A Milson, A R O'Rourke, G A Richardson, H F A Rose, 'Staffing strategies in a declining resource situation'

This file contains 2 folders:

• Minutes, agenda and reports of the first meeting on 17 January 1992
• Minutes, agenda and reports of the meeting on 25 February 1992
• Minutes, agenda and reports of the meeting on 21 April 1992
• Minutes, agenda and reports of the meeting on 2 June 1992
• Agenda and reports of the meeting on 3 July 1992

The Merger Task Force was made up of representatives of the two merging institutions, chaired by Professor J S Mason, Glasgow Polytechnic, to discuss all aspects of the merger and pull together the discussions of the individual working parties.

This file contains 1 folder:

• Minutes of meeting on 7 February 1992
• Minutes of meeting on 24 February 1992
• Minutes of meeting on 16 March 1992
• Minutes of meeting on 2 June 1992

The Central Services Working Party looked at the issues surrounding merger of finance offices, personnel departments, administrative computer services, estates and property services, catering services and health and safety arrangements.

This file contains 3 handwritten fees books:

• Cooks certificate (first) course, Cook’s certificate (second) course, 1953-1963 (volume 1)
• Institutional Catering, Advanced Cookery, 1953-1963 (volume 2)
• City and Guilds Cookery examination 151, September 1954-1959 (volume 3)

Details include payment dates, student name, address, date of birth, fee paid, and some with notes, results and award date.

This file contains 4 handwritten fees books:

• Group III diploma, September 1933 - January 1947 (volume 1)
• Group III diploma, September 1947 - September 1960 (volume 2)
• Group III diploma, September 1961 - September 1964 (volume 3)
• Group III diploma, October 1965 - September 1969 (volume 4)

Details include payment dates, student name, address, date of birth, school attended, school leaving qualifications and dates, fee paid, bursary details, notes, results and award date.

This file contains 4 handwritten fees books:

• Leaving certificate students 1925-1927; Sister Tutors and Dietitians, Dietetics Diploma, Preparatory Nurses, Nutrition courses, October 1925 - March 1946 (volume 1)
• Nutrition certificate, Preparatory Nurses course, September 1946 - September 1955 (volume 2)
• Dietetic diploma, September 1946 - September 1970 (volume 3) – gives details of entry qualifications
• Dietetic diploma September 1971 - January 1980; BSc degree in Dietetics, October 1976 - October 1979 (volume 4)

Details include payment dates, student name, address, date of birth, fee paid, and some with entry qualifications, notes, results and award date. Only the fees for 1972 are given in volume 3 and no results are given in volume 4.

This file contains 3 bound volumes:

• Domestic Science (teaching) diploma, September 1967 - September 1969 (volume 1)
• Domestic Science (teaching) diploma, September 1969 - September 1970 (volume 2)
• Domestic Science (teaching) diploma, September 1971 - September 1972 (volume 3)

Details include payment dates, student name, address, date of birth, school attended, school leaving qualifications and dates, fee paid, bursary details, notes, results and award date.