Birth Control Campaign/Birth Control Trust
- Date:
- 1975-1985
- Reference:
- SA/FPA/C/B/2/1
- Part of:
- Family Planning Association
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Includes annotated agendas, copy minutes, papers and correspondence.
Publication/Creation
1975-1985
Physical description
5 files
Biographical note
The Birth Control Campaign was launched in April 1971 to act as a political pressure group on behalf of charities for comprehensive birth control services within the NHS, for better education in family planning, and for Government recognition of the need to study population growth.
In May 1974, having achieved it's main objective and exhausted it's grants, BCC was put in abeyance by suspension of sections of it's constitution. BCC was reactivated in December 1974 to fight James White's Abortion (Amendment) Bill. But it was not until 1982 that suspended sections of the BCC constitution were restored.
The Birth Control Trust was also founded in 1971 as a registered charity whose principal objective was the education of policy and decision makers (in government, regional and district health authorities), opinion formers and consumer groups. The Trust was the charitable arm of the BCC whose activities were separately financed.