Margaret Pyke Centre Trustees

Includes annotated agendas, copy minutes, papers from the Trustees meetings and correspondence.

1975-1988

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The Margaret Pyke Centre began as a memorial to Margaret Pyke, who became the second Chairman of the FPA in 1954 and died in 1966. To commemorate Margaret Pyke's remarkable 36 years work for family planning, a Memorial Trust was registered as a charity at the end of 1968, with the object of supporting a model family planning centre in which all aspects of birth control and particularly training, research and education could be provided for home and overseas doctors, nurses and ancillary workers. By 1969 the new Centre was starting it's work at the FPA's national offices at 27 Mortimer Street, London, and was officially opened in November 1969. By 1973 it had become the biggest family planning centre in the world. Following the NHS (family Planning) Act of 1967 and the 1974 NHS Reorganisation Act, the work of the Centre continued but the Trustees handed their responsibilities for the Centre to the District Management Team in February 1976. The interest of the founders was kept through the Trust, which was in a position similiar to that of the Trustees of a hospital endowment fund. The Trustees continued to control the original fund and finance research and educational projects.

Restricted until 1 January 2089.