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Material relating to the formation, administration and programming of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Women’s Group, as well as records relating to the establishment and activities of other collectives and community groups. Includes flyers, reports, newsletters, posters, correspondence, job descriptions, adverts for the CLCBLG.

Includes: questionnaire on Section 28 from Lesbian Custody Project; letter from Black Womantalk publishing co-op; annual reports of Black Lesbian & Gay Centre Project and associated paperwork; letter from Eleventh House Housing Co-operative; Black Lesbians & Gays Against Media Homophobia; account of CLC’s confirmation of premises at 54-56 Phoenix Road; flyer/s and press for Kentish Town Women’s Workshop; Lesbians in Libraries bulletin; job adverts for CLC; Women’s Media Resource Centre invite.

Includes: Peckham Black Women’s Group flyer (n.d.), Peckham Black Women’s Centre annual review (1989), Hackney Lesbians Social flyer (n.d.), Women’s Training Link application (n.d.); Truly Fierce Productions flyer (n.d.); London Black Gay Group publication (essays & creative writing); Black Lesbian & Gay Centre newsletter (Sept, Nov 1986; Jun, Oct 1987; Aug-Sept 1993); In Print Peckham Black Women’s Group newsletter no. 2 (c. 1986).

Also contains London Boroughs Grants Committee application by Black Lesbian & Gay Centre (16 March 1988).

Correspondence between Matrix Feminist Architectural Co-op and CLCBLG representatives re: surveying, building consultation and advice sessions; also Matrix information leaflets and guidelines for premises for women (c.1985-1986).

CLCBLG meeting minutes, leaflets, flyers and correspondence. Bundle also includes six folders primarily comprising correspondence, meeting minutes, invoices and records relating to event planning:
1/100/1: CLCBLG minutes, flyers, correspondence (c.1988-1989)
1/100/2: Records relating to organisation of Zami II: The second national Black Lesbian Conference (1989)
1/100/3: Minutes of planning meetings for CLCBLG Blacklesbian event in Mar 1988; also contains meeting minutes regarding Black lesbian open day at the Centre.
1/100/4: CBLG meeting minutes, flyers, correspondence, planning notes regarding International Women’s Week 1989 events (c.1989)
1/100/5: Correspondence, invoices and licensing documents relating to CLCBLG events and affiliated projects, including Camden Women’s Bus (c.1988)
1/100/6: CLCBLG correspondence, meeting minutes, and draft T&Cs of employment at CLC (1987)
1/100/7: Correspondence and booking form regarding room hire at Tolmers Square Community Centre (1987)

Black Lesbian Group publicity materials, including posters, flyers, mail-outs advertising Black lesbian events and socials.

Matrix floor plans of Phoenix Road premises, invoices from Common Ownership Design and Construct (CODAC) for building works completed and related correspondence, and copy of building contract between CLCBLG and CODAC (c.1986-1988).

Material relating to Camden Black Lesbian Group (BLG). Includes: meeting agendas and minutes for BLG; briefing for BLG members regarding 1990 Centre review; BLG flyers (masters and photocopies); CLCBLG questionnaires for Black lesbians (master and photocopies; one completed.

CLCBLG photographs, including events, day trips, demonstrations, and socials. No dates or other annotations.

CLCBLG photographs from ‘Smash the Backlash’, an explicitly queer, anti-racist demonstration organised by Positive Images and Haringey Black Action in March 1987.