Comprises minutes for various meetings of the YNT including Business Committee, Scientific Committee, Council, Annual General Meeting, Ordinary General Meeting, meeting of the Chairmen of the Reserve Management Committee (Nov 1978) and Extra-ordinary meeting.

Venues include Spurn; York University; Castlegate, York.

Topics include provision of Portaloos at Spurn, finances, reserves and potential reserves, membership, staff duties, Spurn and Moorlands admission fees, grants, bequests, appointment and election of officers, Spurn road maintenance, Wheldrake Ings Management policy, erosion and contingency plan at Spurn, demolition of derelict buildings, Management Aims of the various Reserves, granting of permits, Heritage Coast status (Sep 1978), Askham Bog Book, proposed Cleveland Nature Conservation Trust, protective measures for the Little Terns at Spurn.

Contains correspondence related to various topics including Spurn Point playground (Oct 1978), Little Terns and creation of new habitat (Feb 1978), prospective volunteer (Jan 1978), postponement of demolition work at Spurn (1978), work to be carried out and request to install a water meter (May 1979).

Also includes newspaper cuttings in relation to demolition of wartime buildings at Spurn (1978), details from Humberside County Council Technical Services Department detailing Specifications of demolition, handwritten notes, list of YNT Council members with contact details 1977/1978, copy of income and expenditure account (1977), draft consultation document concerning Corporate Planning (Aug 1977), report on SPNC Administrative Conference (Nov 1977), Manpower Services Commission Project (1978), document marked urgent detailing YNT investments (1978), Second draft of Corporate Plan (Jan 1978), report of the Council (1977-1979), Newsletter from British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, First Corporate Plan (Feb 1978), notes for the Council related to Junior wing being transferred to the Watch Club (Jun 1978) and Reserve News (Oct 1978).