| Description | Minutes and associated papers of a body established by the University Centre Committee in July 1971 to consider how best to co-ordinate services in University Centre and the Guild of Students building 'which would not exclude the possibility of integration'. Membership consisted of members of both the University Centre Committee and the Guild of Students Union Services and Events Committee. The Working Party examined the capacity and use of catering and dining facilities; assessed the use of social facilities and bar facilities; and considered alterations to or the reorganisation of catering, bar, and social facilities. It received evidence from other bodies and individuals on the Edgbaston campus
Although the minutes cover the period from October 1971 to February 1972, the records include copies of earlier reports, including the Final Report of the Refectory Commission, March 1968, and a copy of the University Centre Survey, February 1971
The minutes and associated papers contain detailed information about catering arrangements on the Edgbaston campus in the early 1970s, both in the University Centre and in the Guild of Students building; papers on the development of social facilities in the University Centre. They include Guild of Students catering section accounts, University Centre and Medical School Buffet accounts and comparisons of catering costs; information about staff wages and production costs; reports by the Catering Officer of the University Centre and the Manager of the Students' Union Catering Service and records of discussion between these individuals and the Working Party; and record discussion about integration and centralised production. Papers include copies of the interim and final reports of the Joint Working Party, with comments and notes on these reports. The final report was presented in February 1972 and it is likely that the functions of the Working Party were then taken over by the University Centre Committee and Union Services Committee Catering Joint Sub-Committee (see UB/COM/114)
Surviving records are not the authorised versions but were probably papers kept by the Registrar |