Society of Friends Allotments Committee

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 222/1/7
• Dates of Creation:1931-1955
• Physical Description:
  40 files

• Scope and Content

  Contains documents from the English Scheme, used primarily as examples for the management of SASU. The envelope belonging to Victor Webb has a note that the English scheme closed circa 1951.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  The Society of Friends Allotment Committee was founded in 1930 and had contact with the Ministry of Agriculture when the Agricultural Land (Utilization) Bill of 1931 was being written up. Based in London it began a scheme for the unemployed of England that served as a template for SASU, and a representative from the Allotments Committee sat on the SASU Joint Committee.