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Series
Charity Commission: Digests of Casework
Catalogue reference: CHAR 8
What's it about?
CHAR 8
Between 1853 and 1947, the Charity Commissioners recorded information concerning charities that came to their notice by manuscript volumes. Unlike similar records produced by the earlier Commissioners between 1819 and 1841, these were not...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CHAR 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: Digests of Casework
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1858-1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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Between 1853 and 1947, the Charity Commissioners recorded information concerning charities that came to their notice by manuscript volumes. Unlike similar records produced by the earlier Commissioners between 1819 and 1841, these were not published.
The volumes give a comprehensive picture of the work of the Commissioners during that period. They include extracts and summaries of significant trust deeds, details of investments held by the official Trustees of charitable funds and reports on the financial status and activities of individual trustees.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The information in the volumes is arranged chronologically and indexed by name and place.
CHAR 8/1-8 are indexes, followed by the volumes. It was impossible to work out from the volumes accurately just what period is covered by each. Therefore the covering dates of the series have been inserted for each microfilm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 62 microform
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2000 Charity Commission
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Charities
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series ran 1853-1947
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- By the early 1990s, the original volumes were so badly decayed that they were destroyed after a microfilm copy had been taken. There were originally 282 volumes and indices. The microfilm in this series covers all volumes.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15193/
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Charity Commission: Digests of Casework
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