Minute Book of the Polytechnic YMCI Finance and General Purposes Committee. Signed and indexed. Includes attendance logs 1900-1907. At the rear of the volume are included Minutes of the Building Committee, 7 Feb 1908-2 Oct 1908 (connected to the rebuilding of Regent Street) with pasted-in copies of correspondence with the Howard de Walden Estate.
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 22 Sep 1947 and 16 June 1958.
Matters arising include: financial statements; Quintin School; Director of Education report; Robert Mitchell medals; salaries; members and students statistics; cinema licence/lease (Rialto Cinemas Ltd); Olympic Games 1948; Clubs and Societies; Compassionate Fund; renovations and improvements; maintenance grants; fire insurance; Kynaston Studd memorial fund; allotments on Chiswick Sports Ground; staff appointments and resignations; scholarships; World War 2 Memorial; tuition fees; Polytechnic Touring Association Shop (19 Dec 1949); Alcohol licence at the Boathouse (19 Feb 1951); Festival of Britain 1951; Coronation decorations; Audit Fees; Students' Union constitution; cinema ventilation system issues (1954-1956); HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit to Poly (Feb 1958).
Agenda book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee between 18 Feb 1957 and 16 Jun 1958. Every agenda also contains cash statements; numbers of roll; membership tickets [showing total figures of men and women members]; sports club membership tickets; statistics of members.
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 23 Oct 1891 and 25 Apr 1900.
Matters arising include: memberships statistics; Marlborough Rooms lease; staff salaries and appointments; School of Art premises in Great Titchfield Street; sports clubs and societies; holiday trips statistics; financial statements; building alterations and repairs; rules of the Ladies Entertainment Society (Dec 1893); Paddington Recreation Ground; electric installation; heating.
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 24 Nov 1921 and 21 Jan 1929.
Matters arising include: financial statements; appointments, salaries and resignations; clubs and societies; Compassionate Fund; grants; Howard Morley Legacy (1922); membership statistics; Large Hall [cinema] lettings; Chiswick Sports Ground improvements; Robert Mitchell Scholarship; Great Portland Street Extension rebuilding scheme [Little Titchfield Street/Riding House Street building]; leases of buildings.
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 28 Jan 1909 and 28 May 1914.
Matters arising include: Secondary school; financial statements; member statistics; leases; 1910 rebuild of 309 Regent Street progress reports; clubs and societies; Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Ground at Chiswick; annual fete; gymnasium and swimming bath use during rebuild; Compassionate Fund; bequests; Maintenance Grant; Royal patronage (28 Mar 1912); outline of scheme for the foundation of a central trade installation for the encouragement and further development of industrial art and decorative design.
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 16 Jul 1914 and 27 Oct 1921.
Matters arising include: appointments and salaries; membership statistics; financial statements; war fund; volunteer training corps; insurance against bombs; Compassionate Fund; VR Hoare memorial; Royal Flying Corps training; war bonuses; Hospital Saturday Fund; large hall lettings; air raid protection; hairdressing classes for disabled soldiers (Apr 1918); death of Alice Hogg; memorial tablet to members and students who have fallen in the First World War (27 Feb 1919); Boathouse tank (27 Jan 1921); Major Robert Mitchell's retirement (23 Jun 1921); Poly cinema leases (1921).
