Catalogue description Liverpool Union of Youth Clubs formerly Liverpool Union of Girls' Clubs and Mixed Clubs, formerly Liverpool Union of Girls' Clubs

1 Executive and Committee minutes 1912-1964

2 Financial records 1920-1965

3 Annual reports 1917/18-1968/9

4 Circular letters 1946-1969

5 Activities 1892-1950

6 Administration; development 1937-1973

7 Press cuttings 1931-1955

8 Photographs 1910s-1970s

9 Llangollen - Plas Geraint 1950-1979

10 Barnston 1948-1982

11 Llangollen/Barnston finance 1956-1969

12 Miscellanous publications

Liverpool Union of Youth Clubs

The LUGC was founded 1890, the first three clubs being the Excelsior (Edge Hill), Greenland St and Bankhall Girls' Institute (all Liverpool). Incorporated in 1938, its constitution changed in 1943 to allow mixed clubs to affiliate (becoming LUGC& MC). Its name changed to Liverpool Union of Youth Clubs (LUYC) in 1961. (The National Association of Mixed Clubs and Girls Club was founded in 1911 under the title National Organisation of Girls' Clubs.) In 1969 it with the Liverpool Boys Association to form the Merseyside Youth Association. The offices were in Water Street then Castle Street and then in Bluecoat Chambers, moving to 19 Williamson St in the summer of 1948.

According to its constitution (1919, 3/2 below), the LUGC was formed in the year 1890, as a section of the Association for the Care and Training of Girls. It chiefly concentrated its attendtion on the annual competition: later according to the 1919 constitution the Committee rearranged its work into four sections: the Competition as before, Educational and Recreational; Athletics and Industrial.

By 1937, the year before its incorporation, committees responsible to the General Council were: Executive, Training (special committee), Holidays (special), Playing Fields, Appeals (special). Responsible to the Executive Committee were the Finance, Staff, Club Activities (with sub-committees of Drama and PT - then suspended -, the Members' Council, Leaders' Meeting, others as decided), Grants, General Athletics Council (with sub-committees of Rounders and Netball and others as decided), Club Institutes and Club Development (with sub-committees for the Shaw St Institute, and others as decided). A typescript history of LUGC (367MYA/6/4) provides a useful general introduction.