File. Flying Angel Marketing Enterprises

Reference No:
U DMS/4/77
Dates:
14 Mar 1968-Nov 2000
Description:
File containing extracts from minutes of meetings held by the Missions to Seamen relating to Flying Angel Marketing Enterprises (FAME), also a Register of Members , shares, transfers, directors and secretaries with entries covering the period 1968-1998. Includes references to: proposale to form a company for the purpose of tax relief on the sales of Christmas cards and gifts in 1968; proposal to appoint a manager of a trading company to deal with Christmas cards 1968; formation of a trading company for trial of three years agreed Mar 1968; financial situation of the company; use of office space at 22a Eccleston Square in 1968; increase in loan to the company from the society; vacancies on board of directors of the company; finances of the company; need for liaison between selling side and production side of the company; numbers of Christmas cards sold; profit made in 1972; proposal to transfer the FAME offices to the Midlands in 1974; future of the company and decision to regard FAME as integral part of the society rather than separate company 1976; sales figures; board membership; Webb Ivory Limited to take over the running of the FAME operation for a trial period of 1 year 1978; public relations benefit of FAME; retirement of Captain Scandrett as managing director of FAME in 1984, and re-organisation of FAME to associate more closely with fundraising activities of the society; Commander .J.W.E. Moreton to assume responsibility for FAME from 1985; Mrs Virginia Pendock as Chair of FAME in 1998; reconstruction of the FAME board in 1993; FAME profit reverting to the society by way of a Deed of Convenant mentioned 2000.
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)