Manchester and Salford's Invalid Children's Aid Association
1906-1976
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Minutes 1906-1972; Administrative Records and Legal Contracts 1948-1968; Financial Records 1918-1976; Annual Reports 1909-1971; Newspaper Cuttings 1918-1965; Photographs 1947-1967
Related Material:Further information relating to this Association, including records on Taxal Edge, are held by the Together Trust.
Repository:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Title:
Manchester and Salford's Invalid Children's Aid Association
Date of work:
1906-1976
Reference number:
GB127.M802
Level of description:
Fonds
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Custodial history:
The Invalid Children's Aid Association (ICAA) was set up in 1913 as an offshoot of the Manchester University Settlement. This organisation, set up in 1884, was a settlement home in Ancoats, inhabited by young college graduates, who worked in their spare time providing education and enjoyment for people in the poorer areas of Manchester. By 1896 work began with disabled children through 'cripple parties' under the initiative of two residents, Helen Fisher and Janet Blair. This eventually resulted in the formation of the Santa Fina Society in Ancoats in 1907 which, was created for educational and recreational work with disabled children. This played a part in the foundation of the Manchester and Salford Invalid Children's Aid Association in 1913. Its objects were to seek out delicate and crippled children of the poor to help prevent and cure disease. By 1965 discussions were initiated with the Boys and Girls Welfare Society, with a view to an amalgamation of interests. In 1966 the consent of the Charity Commission was gained so that the Society should become Trustee for all purposes of the interests of the ICAA. This was confirmed on the 23rd October 1968. Its objectives were still to provide assistance to invalid and crippled children in Manchester, Salford and district, through the provision of recuperative holidays, either at its own home Taxal Edge or on an agency basis through other homes in the North West. Some family assistance was also provided through grants from other charity funds. As a result of the amalgamation, and on the grounds of economy, the annual report for the ICAA was dispensed with and was included, along with its accounts, with those of the society. It continued to function as a separate charity however, until 1975 when the Charity Commission sealed a scheme for closer administration of the ICAA by the Society.
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Unrestricted
Use restrictions:
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Language:
English
Record number:
7199266
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