The Yorkshire Ladies' Council of Education (YLCE) is an English charitable institution founded in 1875 to support women's education.
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Its current principal activity is the giving of educational grants of £200–£400 to help with course fees for British women over 21 with a place on a course for which they cannot obtain student funding.
History
The Yorkshire Board of Education established a Ladies Committee in 1866, and the Ladies Honorary Council of the Yorkshire Board of Education was founded on 1 January 1871. In 1875 this group became independent of the board and became the Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education. It was incorporated in 1904.
The council was involved in, or supported, the establishment of the Yorkshire School of Cookery (1874),
Bradford Girls' Grammar School
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(1875),
Leeds Girls' High School
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(1876),
Yorkshire College of Science (precursor of the University of Leeds, 1878),
Wakefield Girls' High School
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Community
The school is ...
(1878), the West Riding Nursing Association (1907), and several other social work projects including Forest Hill residential home for the elderly, opened in 1960 and now a sheltered housing scheme operated by a separate charity Yorkshire Ladies Council (Hostels) Ltd.
was the council's president 1885–1912.
The council's archive is held by
West Yorkshire Archive Service
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Etymology
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A history of the council was published by the
Thoresby Society in 1979.
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Secretarial college
The Yorkshire Ladies Secretarial College was founded by the council in 1918 at 7 Cookridge Street, Leeds. It later moved to 18 Blenheim Terrace, opposite the
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...
, and closed on 1 January 1988.
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Women's organisations based in England
Charities based in West Yorkshire
Educational charities based in the United Kingdom
Women's education in the United Kingdom
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