'Mrs Hoster's Scheme' (Educated Women Workers’ Loan Training Fund), 1908 - 1913

File

Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCIP SPTW 5/3/2/1

Scope and Contents

The file contains the following:
i) Constance Hoster’s correspondence concerning the establishment of the Fund and related disputes, 1908, including correspondence with Miss M G Spencer, Secretary of the Central Employment Bureau for Women, and with H John Falk;
ii) Rules for the Administration of the Educated Women Workers’ Loan Training Fund [no date: circa 1909];
iii) Minutes of the first annual meeting of the EWWLTF held at 2 Upper Berkeley Street on Wednesday 8th [no month: 1910?];
iv) Letter to Miss [M G] Spencer requesting information about the Central Bureau Loan Fund, 6 June 1910;
v) List of grants from the EWWLTF 1908-13, giving date, name [title and surname only], profession, grant, repayments, remarks.
[Note: the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was initially reluctant to allow its name to be linked with Mrs Hoster’s scheme, but its funds were eventually transferred to the Society in 1913, by which time Mrs Hoster was Honorary Secretary of the Society’s Committee.]

Dates

Creation: 1908 - 1913

Creator

From the Fonds: Society for Promoting the Training of Women (Organization)
From the Fonds: Boucherett, Emilia Jessie, 1825 - 1905 (campaigner for women's rights, known as Jessie) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Priority access to designated officers of Futures for Women (in line with the Archive's procedures). A number of files in this collection have been closed in accordance with Data Protection regulations, although the relevant catalogue entries are available online.