GD467/1/1/4 1970-92 Scottish Minorities Group/Scottish Homosexual Rights Group: National constitutions
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SMG Constitution: Edinburgh December 1970 - single side of A4 Draft Summary of SMG Constitution [signed] Malcolm [Crowe] Also handwritten draft of same. SMG Constitution Adopted at the AGM held on 2 Dec 1972 - 7 sides of A4 SMG AGM 1973 - Amendment to the Constitution |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SMG by Ian Dunn Edinburgh: 23 June 1975 SMG began in Glasgow early in 1969 and was formally constituted on 9 May at a meeting attended by 25 people. Occasional meetings were arranged, with much smaller attendances, for the rest of the year in Glasgow. THe first meeting in Edinburgh was on 22 August 1969 in the Mound Centrex which was then located at 8 North Bank Street. SMG was very experimental in the early days, and was considered to be an extension of the Church of Scotland's Moral Welfare Committee's fieldwork. These meetings, which became monthly in 1970, transferred to 52 Queen Street (the present Mound Centre) in May 1970. However the Group was asked to leave the premises by the end of that year because SMG had begun to pursue an independent policy. The meetings in Edinburgh were the only ones in Scotland in 197. Almost, abandoned, SMG won a lucky break when the Catholic Chaplaincy offered regular use of their premises in George Square from January 1971. The Edinburgh Branch was formed as a district Branch later that year and Community House, Glasgow, offered their address as a 'National Office' at about the same time. Thus the Group was established. Four of the original 6 founders are still active today in the Edinburgh Branch. Ian Dunn. Prepared for Cecil Sinclair, Convener SMG Edinburgh. |
Aims of SMG December 1976 Various Amendments to Constitution dated 1976 Constitution of SMG - accepted 1977 Constitution of SMG accepted 1979 Various Proposals to amend Constitution of SMG dated 25 May 1985 - also handwritten alterations to these 1987 SHRG Constitution The New Constitution dated 1992: [This looks like a proposed New Constitution (see 1 below). Was it ever accepted?]
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