UNEMPLOYED AT HOME
VOLUNTARY SERVICE
SCHEMES
(British Official Wireless:) • RUGBY, 12th January. Schemes for., helping unemployed to spend their enforced leisure in congenial and hepful ways by voluntary service, which the Prince of Wales is doing so much to foster, have been launched in nearly 200 towns. In the larger town several schemes are operating—in Liverpool and Merseyside, for instance, there are 30 social centres for unemployed men—and the activities take many forms. Occupation centres are.. popular. Disused buildings have/in ■ several cases been taken over at .little or no rent and equipped for woodwork, boot repairing, and similar jobs. Recreation and physical training and library and other educational facilities. are widely welcomed. An allotment movement pioneered by the Society of Friends is spreading into additional areas. The management of .these schemes is frequently ip the hands of the unemployed themselves, outside aid being confined to financial help, provision of facilities, and in some cases expert advice. The National Council of Social Service, on behalf of which the Prince of Wales broadcast an appeal, has received evidence from all over the country of a general desire to help with this important social work.1
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 11
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192UNEMPLOYED AT HOME Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 11
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