Durham Rural Community Council
Reference: D/DRCC Catalogue Title: Durham Rural Community Council Area: Catalogue Category: Charity and Society Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1933-1983
Catalogue Index
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- Durham Rural Community Council
- Durham Rural Community Council (Ref: D/DRCC)
- County Durham and Teesside (Ref: D/DRCC)
- Community Service Council for Durham (Ref: D/DRCC 1-59)
- Durham County Federation of Social Service Centres, later Durham Federation of Social Service Clubs and Kindred Clubs (Ref: D/DRCC 127-133)
- Cornsay Village Hall Fund (Ref: D/DRCC 134)
- Coundon Station Mutual Service Club : Women's Section (Ref: D/DRCC 135)
- Durham City, later Durham City and District, Haig Homes Committee (Ref: D/DRCC 136-139)
- Durham and District Branch of the United Nations Association (Ref: D/DRCC 140)
- Durham House and Spennymoor Settlements (Ref: D/DRCC 141-150)
- Hunwick Social Service Centre (Ref: D/DRCC 151)
- New Brancepeth Nursery School (Ref: D/DRCC 156-157)
- New Coundon Social Service Centre (Ref: D/DRCC 158-159)
- Tow Law Community Centre (Ref: D/DRCC 160-163)
- Washington Committee for Social Service for the Unemployed (Washington/Usworth Social Service Club) (Ref: D/DRCC 164)
- Hartlepool (Ref: D/DRCC)
- West Hartlepool Council of Social Service (Ref: D/DRCC 101-126)
- Middlesbrough (Ref: D/DRCC)
- Middlesbrough Community Council (Ref: D/DRCC 60-80)
- Middlesbrough Settlement (Ref: D/DRCC 152-155)
- Sunderland (Ref: D/DRCC)
- Sunderland Council of Social Service (Ref: D/DRCC 81-89)
- Sunderland Guild of Help (Ref: D/DRCC 90-96)
- Sunderland Guild of Help and Council of Social Service (Ref: D/DRCC 97-98)
- Sunderland Tuberculosis Care Committee of the Guild of Help (Ref: D/DRCC 99-100)
Catalogue Contents
The Community Service Council for Durham, Limited, was formed in May 1935 to promote the development of voluntary social service, in the first place with those suffering through unemployment, then with the community as a whole. The Council was to serve County Durham, except Tyneside and Teesside, but from April 1937 Teesside was included. Within this area there were also three Local Councils of Social Service: Middlesbrough, Sunderland and West Hartlepool. Social clubs were set up in deprived areas to help the unemployed 'occupy their time ... and to keep themselves fit for work when it is offered' and clubs were 'adopted' by other organisations in the south who gave them financial help. At the time of the Community Service Council's second annual report there were 61 community clubs for men and 45 for women.
In the mid-1980s the Community Service Council became the Durham Rural Community Council.
The school transferred to Durham Local Education Authority on 1 April 1948
Ref: D/DRCC 156Middlesbrough Community Council was a direct descendant of the Middlesbrough Guild of Help which was formed in 1910. It became the Middlesbrough Special Services Emergency Committee in 1939 and finally Middlesbrough Community Council in 1941
Ref: D/DRCC 60The object of a Council of Social Service was to bring together, on a permanent basis, a number of citizens to discuss local social needs, so that they might jointly gain a comprehensive view of the problems which confronted the local community, and might mobilise resources for action to improve its spiritual, mental and physical welfare
Ref: D/DRCC 81Sunderland Guild of Help's aim was to help individuals or families in need. It achieved this by making recommendations to employers, providing bed clothes, clothes and milk, and by helping those who were ill, including those suffering from tuberculosis
Ref: D/DRCC 90