GB 0046 DE/DAT Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 44695 The National Archives HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES DE/DAT Records of the Digswell Arts Trust, 1958-2004 Deposited, 1998, 2005 and 2006 Aces 3393, 4120, 4148, 4156, 4174, Catalogued 4176,4177,4178,4179,4180, Dec 2005 - 2006 4190,4191,4255 CB, SF HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES DE/DAT Digswell Arts Trust The Digswell Arts Trust The Digswell Arts Trust was founded in 1957 by the influence of the educational innovator Henry Morris. Digswell House, Welwyn Garden City was leased from the Commission for the New Towns and adapted into studios for artists (fellows) and their families to live and work. As an educational charity one of the Trust's main aims is to contribute directly to artistic creativity by providing facilities at the lowest possible cost to artists and craftsmen at a formative stage in their careers. The fellows are chosen for their ability by a panel of distinguished experts and are supported by the Trust in their applications for grants and other sources of funding. The Gordon Maynard Gallery, 22 Parkway, Welwyn Garden City was opened by the Trust in November 1964 (now closed) to exhibit fellows' work and bring their activities to the centre of the Garden City community. The Trust no longer occupies Digswell House but has premises at the Attimore Barn, Ridgway, Welwyn Garden City and Fairlands Valley Farm, Stevenage where studios are provided for craftsmen to work. In April 2005 the Trust gave up the Attimore Barn and moved into purpose built premises at The Forge, Hertford Road, Digswell. Henry Morris (1889-1961) as the Cambridgeshire Education Officer in the 1920s planned that county's chain of Village Colleges and community schools well known today. He was also a pioneer of new standards and ideas about the design, decorating and furnishing of schools. Highly enthusiastic about the arts, his ambition was to see living arts centres take their proper place in community education. He joined the New Towns Commission in 1946 and the Digswell community of artists was the first to be established as a model for others to follow. HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES DE/DAT DE/DAT 1 - MINUTES AND AGENDAS DE/DAT 1/1 Minutes DE/DAT 1/1/1 Quarterly Trustee Meeting Minutes 1 file 5 Jan 1960-27 Dec 1961 DE/DAT 1/1/2 Minute Book - contains minutes for quarterly 1 vol 4 May 1961­ trustee meetings, annual meetings, emergency 19 Jun 1974 meetings, arts committee meetings, management meetings. DE/DAT 1/1/3 Quarterly Trustee Meeting Minutes 1 bdl 24 Oct 1974­ 26 Jan 1979 DE/DAT 1/1/4 Quarterly Trustee Meeting Minutes 1 file 20 Apr 1979­ 22 Mar 1983 DE/DAT 1/1/5 Finance Sub-Committee Minutes - includes 1 file 30 Mar 1982 accounts, expenditure analysis. DE/DAT 1/1/6 House and Maintenance Subcommittee Minutes 1 file 3 Jun 1982 - includes maintenance budget, reports and recommendations, questionnaires and other notes. DE/DAT 1/1/7 Programme and Promotion Subcommittee 1 file 26 May 1982 Minutes - includes proposals for exhibitions DE/DAT 1 /1 /8 Trust minutes lbdl 19 Apr 1982­ 20 Sep 1983 DE/DAT 1/1/9 Trust minutes lbdl 24 Jan 1984­ 22 Jan 1986 DE/DAT 1/1/10 Trust minutes 1 bdl 5 Dec 1988 ­ 7 Dec 1994 DE/DAT 1/1/11 Management Committee minutes 1 file 8 Feb 1982­ 21 Apr 1982 DE/DAT 1/1/12 Trust minutes with notes and papers 1 file 14 Sep 1989­ 5 Oct 1999 DE/DAT 1 /1 /13 Trust minutes 1 bdl 8 Mar 1995 ­ 9 Sep 1997 HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES DE/DAT DE/DAT 1/1/14 Trust minutes lbdl 23 Jan-31 Aug 1974 DE/DAT 1/1/15 Trust minutes lbdl 6 Jan 1998­ 20 Dec 2000 DE/DAT 1/2 - Agendas and meeting papers DE/DAT 1/2/1 Trust meeting agendas and meeting papers lbdl 29 Mar 1969 ­ 26 Apr 1971 DE/DA T 1/2/2 Agendas and meeting papers lbdl Mar-Oct 1974 DE/DA T 1/2/3 Trust meeting agendas 1 file 12 May 1971­ 27 Oct 1981 DE/DAT 1/2/4 Trust meeting agendas lbdl 14 Oct 1982 ­ 23 May 1989 DE/DAT 1/2/5 Trust meeting agendas 1 file 29 Nov 1989­ 5 Oct 1999 DE/DAT 1/2/6 Trust meeting agendas lbdl 7 Apr 1978­ 13 Jul 1999 DE/DAT 2 - ACCOUNTS DE/DAT 2/1 - Accounts DE/DAT 2/1/1 Accounts, balance sheets, petty cash and 1 file 1969- 1973 correspondence DE/DAT 2/1/2 Report and Accounts 1 1974 item DE/DAT 2/1/3 Audited Accounts 1 bdl 1973, 1976­ 1977, 1979­ 1982 DE/DAT 2/1/4 Accounts Book 1 vol 1971 - 1974 DE/DAT 2/1/5 Accounts Book 1 vol 1974 - 1979 DE/DAT 2/1/6 Accounts Book 1 vol 1979- 1981 DE/DAT 2/1/7 Accounts Book 1 vol 1981 - 1982 DE/DAT 2/1/8 Accounts Book 1 vol 1982- 1993 HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES DE/DAT DE/DAT 2/1/9 Accounts, incl. balance sheets, budgets, 1 file 1981 - 1983 correspondence and invoices DE/DAT 2/1/10 Accounts 1 file 1972, 1974, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990 DE/DAT 2/1/11 Accounts and Financial Reports 1 bdl 1993- 1999 DE/DAT 2/2 - Balance Sheets DE/DAT 2/2/1 Balance Sheets 1 file 1959- 1962, 1964- 1974 DE/DAT 2/3 - Accounts Papers DE/DAT 2/3/1 Correspondence relating to accounts 1 file 7 Apr 1960­ 22 Jan 1981 DE/DAT 2/3/2 Petty Cash Book 1 vol 1965 - 1978 DE/DAT 2/3/3 Petty Cash Book 1 vol 1980- 1982 DE/DAT 2/3/4 Correspondence with and regarding the Trustee 1 file 6 Feb 1970- Savings Bank (TSB), concerning investments 16 May 1983 and account. DE/DAT 2/3/5 Digswell Arts Trust Covenants (Friends of DAT) 1 file 1974- 1977 DE/DAT 2/3/6 Income and Expenditure Analyses 1 file 1960- 1982 DE/DAT 2/3/7 Financial Papers incl. handwritten income and lbdl 1975- 1976 expenditure accounts, accounts for Digswell House units, and rates of contributions. DE/DAT 2/4 - Grant Applications DE/DAT 2/4/1 Arts Council of Great Britain 1 file 1965 - 1977 DE/DAT 2/4/2 Gulbenkian Foundation 1 file 1964- 1980 DE/DAT 2/4/3 Noel Buxton Trust 1 file 1965 - 1975 DE/DAT 2/4/4 Various including the Pilgrim Trust 1 file 1965 - 1977 DE/DAT 2/4/5 Various including the Drapers' Company 1 file 1968 - 1977 HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES DE/DAT DE/DAT 2/4/6 Carnegie Trust 1 file 1969- 1973 DE/DA T 2/4/7 Elmgrant Trust 1 file 1966 DE/DAT 2/4/8 Hertfordshire County Council 1 file 1966- 1978 DE/DAT 2/4/9 Hertfordshire County Council 1 file 1974- 1981 DE/DAT 2/4/10 Commission for New Towns 1 file 1967- 1983 DE/DAT 2/4/11 Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust 1 file 1956- 1977 DE/DAT 2/4/12 Ford Foundation 1 file 1965 - 1966 DE/DAT 2/4/13 Grant Applications including Hertfordshire 1 bdl 1996- 1998 Environmental Arts Fund DE/DAT 3 - CORRESPONDENCE DE/DAT 3/1 - General Correspondence DE/DAT 3/1/1 Gordon Maynard Gallery General 1 file 28 Jul 1967- Correspondence 26 Jun 1974 DE/DAT 3/1/2 Correspondence regarding publicity for the Trust 1 file 24 Oct 1964­ and for the Gordon Maynard Gallery. Also 28 Dec 1966 includes newsletter and a copy of the Arts Review dated 1st April 1967 DE/DAT 3/1/3 Correspondence relating to Welfare State theatre 1 file 28 Nov 1974 ­ group. Also includes photo negatives, 29 Oct 1979 programmes and pamphlets. DE/DAT 3/1/4 Correspondence regarding the Eastern Arts 1 file 24 Nov 1978 - Association. Also includes Annual Report for 21 Mar 1979 1977/1978, reports prepared for the Eastern Arts Association Working Party, and applications for grants. DE/DAT 3/1/5 Correspondence regarding the Eastern Arts 1 file 22 Oct 1980- Association. Also includes agendas and minutes 31 May 1983 of meetings, reports of working parties. DE/DAT 3/1/6 Correspondence regarding the Welwyn Hatfield 1 file 1965 - 1980 Arts Council. Also include minutes of Arts Association meetings, leaflets regarding Arts Association events HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES DE/DAT DE/DA T 3/1/7 Correspondence regarding advertising the Trust 1 file 5 Jan 1967­ mostly between the Trust and Broadwater Press, 5 Mar 1976 and Saint Bernard Press. DE/DA T 3/1/8 Administrators general correspondence. Also 1 file 12 Mar 1965 ­ includes reports for meetings. 6 Dec 1979 DE/DA T 3/1/9 Correspondence regarding the arts organisation, 1 file 16 Dec 1975 ­ 'Kite'. Includes advertising material and reports. 9 Aug 1976 DE/DA T 3/1/10 Correspondence with local societies. Also 1 file 30 Jan 1974­ includes lists of arts organisations, 20 Oct 1981 DE/DA T 3/1/11 Trustees General correspondence. 1 file 21 Jan 1958­ 2 Aug 1967 DE/DA T 3/1/12 General correspondence 1 file 12 Sep 1963­ 2 Dec 1966 DE/DA T 3/1/13 General correspondence 1 file 17 Jan 1967 ­ 8 Nov 1979 DE/DA T 3/1/14 General correspondence.