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Description: | During the first world war the government needed to raise funds for the war effort. Consequently, the National Savings Movement was established in 1916 to encourage the British people to 'save and prosper'. The National Savings Movement grew from volunteers who were organised into Local Savings Committees. Savings products were sold directly to the public and the funds were sent to the government. The range of products included, saving stamps, certificates, and bonds, which were provided not only by the Post Office Savings Bank, but by other financial institutions, in this case the Trustee Savings Bank, through associations such as Elmore Green Schools The movement continued between the wars, but was reorganised to support world war II, when the War Savings Campaign was set up by the War Office in November 1939. War savings were not only limited to the purchase of certificates and bonds, but also used local collections to raise money for aeroplanes, tanks and any items which were urgently needed for the war effort. The summaries are a record for the school of the amounts collected weekly from the sale of certificates and by deposits, giving an overall weekly and then period end total. Originally half-yearly records (March and September), from 1930 they became annual sheets. From Aug 1944, the returns became registers, breaking the weekly account down to daily returns. They contain no personal information. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Archives / Local History Centre | Rights holder: | Elmore Green Infant School | Temporal: | 31 Mar 1925 31 Mar 1930 | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Elmore Green Infant School | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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