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56 Group Wales Papers
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Constitutions

56 Group/56 Group Wales constitutions, including drafts, 1961-2006 (some undated), outlining the principal purpose and aim of the Group and setting down regulations relating to those aims; together with amendments to the constitutions and related correspondence.

Constitutions

56 Group/56 Group Wales constitutions, including drafts, 1961-2006 (some undated), outlining the principal purpose and aim of the Group and setting down regulations relating to those aims; together with amendments to the constitutions and related correspondence. Some folios annotated.

Executive committee minutes

Chairman's agendas and minutes of the 56 Group/56 Group Wales executive committee meetings held December 1963 to March 1969, with related correspondence.

Executive committee minutes and Group minutes

Chairman's agendas and minutes of 56 Group Wales executive committee meetings and Group meetings held December 1971 to November 1979, together with related correspondence and notes, and papers and proposals to be read and discussed at meetings. Some folios annotated by Group secretary Mary Griffiths and Group chairman Arthur Giardelli.

Executive committee minutes and Group minutes, attendance records and notes regarding the role of committee members

Chairman's agendas and minutes of 56 Group Wales executive committee meetings and Group meetings held April 1980 to August 1988 and May 1991 to November 2011, together with related correspondence and notes, papers relating to a Group membership ballot, 1987, papers to be read and discussed at meetings, attendance records for 1997 and notes regarding the role of the Policy & Action Committee, c. 1998. Some folios annotated by Group secretary Mary Griffiths, Group treasurer David Tinker and others.

Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting minutes

Chairman's agendas and minutes of 56 Group/56 Group Wales Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings, 1961-1975, with related correspondence, together with the Publicity Officer's Report for 1964/5 and a Group Constitution of 1961. Some folios annotated by Group secretaries Pat Cross and Mary Griffiths and others. One folio contains a doodle incorporating the name 'Mary Griffiths' by Group member Mervyn Baldwin.

Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting minutes; attendance list

Chairman's agendas and minutes of 56 Group Wales Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings, 1976-2000, 2004-2011, including members' ballot, 1984, committee members' reports and attendance lists, with related correspondence and other papers; together with introductory information by new secretary, 2012, and Extraordinary General Meeting agenda, March 2012, the latter including proposal and selection of new Group members and Fellowship members. Some folios annotated.

Annual reports

Annual reports and chairs' reports of the 56 Group/56 Group Wales, 1961-2011, with related material.

Annual reports and chairs' reports

56 Group/56 Group Wales annual reports, 1961-1998, and Group chairs' reports, 2010-2011, together with related correspondence, photocopies press reports/reviews, chairman's agendas, secretary's covering letters, and a discussion paper by Group chairman Arthur Giardelli. The Group annual reports for 1983-1984 and 1991-1992 are duplicated. Kept in a separate archival envelope but included in this folder are: Correspondence, 1992, 1994, 1998, relating to the receipt of Group annual reports by various Welsh bodies; a circular, 1987, to Group members from Group secretary Mary Griffiths; two postcards, 1997-1998, to Group secretary Bob Weir from art historian and author David Fraser Jenkins; and mailing lists for Group annual reports, 1987-1993, 1996/97. Some folios are annotated by Group secretary Mary Griffiths and others.

Financial records

Financial records, 1956-2011, of the 56 Group/56 Group Wales, including accounts, ledgers, receipts, audits, invoices and treasurer's reports, with related correspondence.

Miscellaneous financial records

Notebook (most folios blank) containing extracts from the 56 Group's 'Manifesto' of August 1956, a record of exhibition sales, accounts and expenses, etc, 1957-1960; loose accounts and notes, [1956]-1958; cheque book stubs, 1991, 1993; receipt book, 1991-1993, 1995; letter, 1989, from Bim Giardelli, wife of Group chairman Arthur Giardelli, enclosing financial contribution; ledger book (many folios blank at end) containing accounts, 1993-1997. Name and address (on Bardsey Island) of artist and writer Brenda Chamberlain noted on inside front cover of 1957-1960 notebook.

Treasurer's file

Financial records, 1991-2001 and undated, of 56 Group Wales, including income and expenditure accounts; statements, invoices and receipts; insurance arrangements; and related correspondence.

Annual audited accounts

56 Group/56 Group Wales annual audited accounts, 1962-1997, treasurer's reports prepared for Group Annual General Meetings, and related correspondence.

Account summaries, etc

Papers comprising account summaries, 1984-1988; information relating to creditors and debtors, 1991-1995; balance sheet, May 1999; and income and expenditure account for 2011.

Correspondence with auditors

Correspondence largely between 56 Group/56 Group Wales secretary Mary Griffiths and Group 56/Group 56 Wales treasurer David Tinker and auditors, 1964-1996. One folio annotated with note from David Tinker to Mary Griffiths.

Membership subscriptions

Lists of those 56 Group/56 Group Wales members owing subscription fees, 1965-1994, 1999-2000, with related correspondence, largely from Group secretaries Mary Griffiths and Julian Sheppard to Group members; list of Group members as of October 1974; list of Group members due to contribute towards exhibition opening, 1978; and receipt book, 1993-1994. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths and Group treasurer David Tinker.

Papers relating to insurance

Papers, including correspondence between insurers and Group secretary Mary Griffiths, 1964, 1970, 1975, relating to insurance of 56 Group/56 Group Wales members' exhibited works and to insurance claims relating to exhibited works stolen (1970) and damaged (1975).

Miscellaneous artwork sales

Invoices and receipts relating to the purchase of 56 Group/56 Group Wales members' works, including sales from exhibitions at the Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford, 1965, 1967, the Grosvenor Gallery, London, [1969], and the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, 1969; together with related correspondence.

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