Bound volume with typescript minutes of the Concert Committee glued in. Includes finances, detailed list of singers, musicians and performers (including the Polytechnic Mandoline Band, Polytechnic Choral and Orchestral Society and Louie Bagley) with Polytechnic members noted. Approximately two-thirds of the volume is blank.
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 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).
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 18 Feb 1929 and 21 Mar 1932.
Matters arising include: financial statements; membership statistics; Great Portland Street Extension; Thorrowgood Scholarship bequest (17 Jun 1929); appointments, resignations and salaries; grants; application for cinematograph, music and dancing licences (21 Oct 1929); Chiswick Sports Ground; moving the Quintin Hogg statue (1930-1932); refreshment department contract (Dec 1930); secondary school cadet corps; use of swimming pool by Young Women's Institute (1931); cinema lettings.
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).
