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THE twenty-eighth annual report of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust (Dumfermline: The Trust) covers the year 1941, and for reasons of economy omits the accounts from the general distribution although they can be obtained on application. Considerations which govern the grant policy of the trustees are detailed in an appendix. The two main policies upon which the Trust is now engaged, operating on a year-to-year basis, are youth service and music. In regard to the former, grants have been offered to local voluntary bodies in aid of capital expenditure on the equipment of clubs for young people, including both the initial equipment of new clubs and the provision of additional equipment for existing ones. Contributions have also been made to the headquarters administration of the National Associations of Boys' Clubs, Girls' Clubs and Young Farmers' Clubs in England and Wales and in Scotland. Publication of the full report on the exploratory work on mixed clubs for young people of both sexes is anticipated early this year. Grants have also been made for the training of potential youth leaders, but the experiment with youth service camps in Oxfordshire has proved unsuccessful and has been discontinued. The Music Education Committee is encouraging the establishment throughout England and Wales of county music committees to co-ordinate all amateur musical activities in the administrative county areas and to foster new developments. The joint Committee for Drama seeks to promote the establishment of county drama committees and the appointment of county drama organizers. Contributions to the Land Settlement Association have been considerably reduced, but grants to the National Council of Social Service have continued at the £5,000 level in 1940-41-42. In addition, a grant of £3000 to the Y. M. C. A. has enabled the Association to continue its scheme of training boys for farm work and placing them in permanent positions on the land ; more than six hundred boys were successfully trained and placed during 1941.
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Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. Nature 149, 635–636 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149635f0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149635f0