Series contains material relating to the establishment, management, activities, and eventual closure (c.1996) of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, newsletters, annual reports, correspondence, flyers, posters, leaflets, press cuttings, message books, workers' logbooks, commissioned research, and more.
Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian GroupMaterial 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.
Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian GroupAdministrative and policy records for London Women’s Centre at Wesley House, 4 Wild Court, London. Includes: leaseholders’ correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes; circular memos; equalities policy and related correspondence; meeting flyers; records relating to grant funding (specifically reduced grant funding from London Boroughs Grants Committee); development proposals for the Centre; and feasibility study re leaseholders and groups with a presence within Wesley House. Leaseholders include the Lesbian Archive & Information Centre (LAIC), Microsyster, Asian Women’s Network, and Friends of Wesley House.
London Women's CentreNewsletters, publications, and annual reports from various women’s groups.
Includes: West Hampstead Women’s Resource Book (n.d. [c.1980s]); Shape annual report (1986/7); ‘We have Always Been Here’, report by Linda King, Black worker at the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (Jun 1989); Peckham Black Women’s Centre annual report (1986/7); Camden Women’s Voice (Oct 1987); Rawshini Asian women’s newsletter (Dec/Jan 1986/7); ‘Lesbians & the Law: Some Papers for Discussion’ from Legislation for Lesbian & Gay Rights Conference (May 1987); Black Lesbian & Gay Centre Project annual report (1987); CLCBLG newsletter (Sept 1992); CLCBLG annual report (1986/7).
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).
Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian GroupMaterial relating to A Woman’s Place (AWP) collective [not related to Woman’s Place UK]. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, incoming and outgoing correspondence, research questionnaires (all 1978-1979). Also includes a flyer for an all-women’s cruise as a benefit for Positively Women and Sheba feminist publisher [c.1980s?].
A Woman's PlaceLeeds Women’s Liberation Newsletters (Jul 1982, Sept 1982, Jan 1983, [Feb/Mar] 1983, April/May 1983).
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).
Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian GroupCLCBLG 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.
Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group