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THE thirty-first annual report of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, covering the year 1944, shows that the total expenditure on grants amounted to rather more than £71,000, the highest annual figure reached during the War. This includes £10,000 in aid of a post-war experiment to be undertaken in Shropshire, where a community house is to be established to serve partly as a residential college for short-term courses of adult education, but also as a focal point for cultural activities within the county. A special grant of £3,000 has also been made to Toynbee Hall to enable it to extinguish a deficit, largely on building account, the continued existence of which is due mainly to war conditions. A grant of £2,000 has been promised to the Council for the Promotion of Field Studies towards the initial cost of adapting and equipping a pioneer field centre at Flatford Mill, Suffolk (see Nature, 155, 744; 1945). The largest block of expenditure during the year was on youth services, which took nearly £22,000 as against £23,000 in 1943. Grants to the headquarters of national youth organizations decreased by about £3,000, but club equipment grants increased by about £6,000 to £15,000. The Trust intends to continue for a further period its provision of grants in aid of the equipment of hostels and camps provided by national and voluntary youth organizations, under detailed conditions which have been communicated to the organizations likely to be concerned. Discussions with the National Association of Boys' Clubs have been proceeding during the year, and the Trust has agreed in principle to provide the capital sum required for the acquisition and the first stage of adaptation of a country house in which the Association proposes to set up a residential institution for standardized training. A report has also been requested by the Trust on periodical literature for juveniles, with the view of considering improvements in this field, and the report is to be, prepared on its behalf and at its expense by the Research Department of tne National Council of Social Service. The endowment income of the Trust amounted in 1944 to £122,801, and of this £80,366 was expended, on grants and administration.
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Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. Nature 156, 329 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156329d0
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