COTTON DISTRICTS CONVALESCENT FUND AND BARNES SAMARITAN CHARITY

M558/1/1-11 COTTON DISTRICTS CONVALESCENT FUND

1. Governors and Hospitals and General Purposes Committee: Minutes, 1875 - 1975

2. Governors and Hospitals and General Purposes Committee: Agenda Books, 1955-1974

3. Governors and Hospitals and General Purposes Committee: Rough Agenda Books, 1953-1981

4. Annual Reports, 1936-1974

5. Legal Documents and Related Papers, 1907-1908

6. Books of Regulations, 1875 - post 1960

7. Finance: Nominal Ledger, 1955-1980

8. Finance: Cash Books, 1943-1975

9. Correspondence, 1970-1977

10. Brochures etc, 20th C.

11. Printed histories.

M558/2/1-12 BARNES SAMARITAN CHARITY

1. Managers' Minutes, 1872-1954

2. Visiting/Investigation Committee: Minutes, 1872-1920

3. Finance Committee: Minutes, 1872-1916

4. Agenda Books, 1955-1973

5. Rough Agenda Books, 1956-1975

6. Annual Reports, 1956-1974

7. Legal Documents, 1870-1924

8. Books of Regulations, 1872-1951

9. Finance: Ledgers, 1872-1980

10. Finance: Cash Book, 1951-1975

11. Finance: Monthly Summary of Payments to Recipients, 1957-1979

12. Correspondence, applications for assistance etc, 1909-1975

M558/3/1-2 COTTON DISTRICTS CONVALESCENT FUND AND BARNES SAMARITAN CHARITY

1. Annual Reports, 1975-1991

2. Correspondence, applications for assistance etc, 1975-1982

Permission of the Secretary is required to see records less than 30 years old.

The following records were deposited in the Library in October 1988 and October 1992 by Mr John Bardsley, F.C.A., Secretary.

The Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund was founded in 1875 to make use of the undistributed balance of the money collected to relieve the distress caused by the Cotton Famine of 1861. Its object was to provide for convalescent care of needy persons from designated areas. A convalescent home was built at Southport and later money was contributed to the enlargement and reconstruction of the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton and a Children's Sanatorium in Southport.

The Barnes Samaritan Charity was founded in 1872 under the provision of the will of Robert Barnes, esq (June 1870). The object was "the relief of persons afflicted with severe or incurable bodily disease, at their own homes ...". Again, recipients had to live within a certain area, in the first instance the City of Manchester or Borough of Salford.

Under a scheme dated 8 April 1975, the Charity Commissioners approved a scheme for the two charities to be administered jointly, although the different conditions governing who might benefit from each charity were retained.