The Evidence for Voluntary Action (Works of William H. Beveridge): Being Memoranda by Organisations and Individuals and other Material Relevant to Voluntary Action

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William H. Beveridge, A. F. Wells
Routledge, Nov 27, 2014 - Business & Economics - 334 pages

This supplementary volume to Beveridge’s important work Voluntary Action sets out some of the important material on which the Report is based, and amplifies it by giving views and statements of fact submitted by many experts in the fields covered by his Inquiry.

 

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Preface by Lurd Beveridge Part I MassObservation Reports
The Friendly Societies
Mutual Aid and the
Voluntary Services
Aspects of Charity
Holidays
A Selection of Tables
Memoranda on Finance of Voluntary Action 1 Government Grants to Voluntary Agencies
British Association of Residential Settlements
National Federation of Womens Institutes
Womens Voluntary Services
The British Red Cross Society
The St John Ambulance Brigade
National Old Peoples Welfare Committee
The Nuffield Foundation
National Institute for the Blind

Notes on The Taxation of Voluntary Agencies
Memoranda by Organisations 1 The Registry of Friendly Societies 2 National Conference of Friendly Societies
The Building Societies Association
National Federation of Housing Societies
Cases from the Surrey Voluntary Association for the Care of Cripples
Provident Associations
The Liberal Party Organisation
Memoranda by Individuals on Special Topics 1 Early Friendly Societies by Lord Beveridge 2 Unitary Friendly Societies in 1905 and 1945 by Lord ...

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