File. Lottery BBC Appeals

Reference No:
U DMS/4/116
Dates:
17 Apr 1940-12 Dec 1995
Description:
File containing extracts from minutes of meetings of the Missions to Seamen relating to appeals to the BBC and the Lottery Fund for financial aid, also two letters and an account balance sheet relating to the closure of a BBC Appeal Account by the society in 1959. Includes references to: BBC Appeal allotted to the society 17 Mar 1940; BBC Appeal receipts totalling £6350 in 1940; dropping of proposal to have a joint BBC appeal with the British Sailors' Society in 1941; named persons making the annual appeals; talk given by Dr Micklom on the BBC on the work of the churches for sailors, May 1943; dates of appeals allotted to the society on the BBC; factual broadcast on the work of the society in the Western Region, Sep 1952; Port of London staff chaplain invited to take part in a Christmas Day broadcast in 1952; amount of BBC Appeal money to be included in the 1956 figures; enquiries to be made about similar appeals on ITV, 1958; the society allocated a appeal on all Home Services of the BBC on 30 Aug 1959, the same to be made by Richard Dimbleby; 1969 appeal made by Sir Francis Chichester raised £860; Appeals to Industry in the 1970s; possibility of royal presidency of trust established to dispose of appeal donations, 1976; BBC Appeal in 1981 raised £5959; GCBS not to undertake sponsorship of the society, 1980; recommendation to investigate application to the National Lottery fund, 1995.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)