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With the approval of His Royal Highness the President, the Society instituted the Presidential Award for Design Management in 1964, an initiative originally suggested by the Council of Industrial Design. The Awards were first given in 1965 and have continued. The award takes the form of a Wedgwood plaque and is intended to recognise outstanding examples of design policy in commercial and industrial organisations and public undertakings in this country, under British control. Consideration is, therefore, given only to these organisations which have maintained a consistently high standard in all aspects of design management, great and small, from factory building to stationery.\nRecords comprise administrative correspondence and papers

Minutes, agendas, administrative correspondence and press releases relating to the Presidential Awards for Design Management.

Plaque made by Wedgwood and the surrounds by G Bucklow and Sons Ltd

Plaque made by Wedgwood and the surrounds by G Bucklow and Sons Ltd. Photograph by Engravers Guild Ltd

Includes conveyance, schedules of statements of account, mortgage and undertaking as to rates and tithe

Loose copy of Journal with original cover

Press cuttings from a range of national and local papers with report on the conference, pasted into a bound volume

Press cuttings from a range of national and local papers with report on the conference, pasted into a bound volume

Press cuttings from a range of national and local papers with report on the conference, pasted into a bound volume

Press cuttings from a range of national and local papers with report on the conference, pasted into a bound volume

The campaign for the preservation of ancient cottages began at a special meeting in May 1926 when Sir Frank Baines read a paper entitled 'The Preservation of Ancient Cottages', during which he announced that the Society had undertaken 'to initiate and endeavour to organise a movement, directed towards the final preservation of the cottage architecture of this country' and that the Society would 'call to a conference all those anxious to help and devise a scheme to accomplish our aims'. This conference was held on January 26, 1927 with the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin in the chair. He proposed a resolution approving the action of the Society and signifying the intention of the meeting 'to assist in the establishment of a substantial fund for application on the broadest national lines in furtherance of this movement'.\nBy July 1927 the amount received had reached just over £4,500 and eventually reached £15,000. In the early days of the campaign the Society was successful in saving the three Thomas a Becket cottages near Worthing and it purchased and reconditioned the group of cottages known as Arlington Row at Bilbury, Gloucestershire, among others.\nIn 1929 the Society purchased in its entirety the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, which was then about to be put up for sale in 60 lots. In 1934, after extensive repairs, the Society handed over the village to the National Trust for permanent preservation. \nThe Society took no further important action in this campaign until 1953 when it decided to expend the balance of the fund, over £1000. It approached the National Trust and was responsible for the overhaul and repair of the roofs of the famous group of cottages at Chiddingstone in Kent.\n\nSeries includes minutes of a committee, printed material and images

On the winding up of the British Export Trade Research Organisation, the surplus of funds was given to the Society as a trust (dated 14 December 1964) 'for the provision of lectures and other educational activities at Universities for the benefit of students concerning themselves with exports'. An advisory committee was set up to administer the Trust. This sat two or three times a year from 1964 to 1983.\nSir Peter Runge, Chairman of the British national Export Council is on the right.

On the winding up of the British Export Trade Research Organisation, the surplus of funds was given to the Society as a trust (dated 14 December 1964) 'for the provision of lectures and other educational activities at Universities for the benefit of students concerning themselves with exports'. An advisory committee was set up to administer the Trust. This sat two or three times a year from 1964 to 1983.\nSir Peter Runge, Chairman of the British Natioanl Export Council on Right

The Sir Frank Warner Memorial Medal commemorates the initiation of the original Competition of Industrial Designs by Frank Warner. It was awarded for the best individual textile design submitted in the competition.

The Sir Frank Warner Memorial Medal commemorates the initiation of the original Competition of Industrial Designs by Frank Warner. It was awarded for the best individual textile design submitted in the competition.