Life Education Centres records, 1975-1995

MLMSS 8978

fonds

1975-1995

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Drawings, Photographs

107031

10.56 metres of textual material (64 boxes)

Life Education Centres, now known as Life Education, was founded by Ted Noffs in 1979. In 1964 Noffs established a Methodist mission in Kings Cross, Sydney, which he named ‘The Wayside Chapel of the Cross’. After several years working in Kings Cross, his vision was to provide drug and health education programs to children and young people. In 1979, Noffs converted a room above the Wayside Chapel into a classroom. The drug and health education program included TAM, the Transparent Anatomical Manikin, a life sized model of the female body, and Harold, an animated giraffe. Noffs also began developing the concept of a mobile classroom. With the help of his friend Dick Smith the first mobile Life Education Centre was built in 1982.

In 1987 Noffs suffered a stroke that left him partly paralysed, and sometimes in a coma, until his death in 1995. His son Wesley Noffs became the CEO of Life Education Centres.

Life Education now operates in all Australian states and territories, as well as in New Zealand, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the United States, Barbados, Cyprus, Finland, Hungary, Thailand, Ireland, Papua New Guinea and Macau.

References
Life Education: our history.
http://www.lifeeducation.org.au/history (accessed 13 June 2013)

Life Education Centre records, including correspondence, notes, minutes and agendas, memoranda, reports, financial statements, annual reports, newsletters, flyers, brochures, newscuttings and photographs, ca. 1975-1995. The collection includes correspondence, notes etc. by Ted Noffs, prior to the official opening of the first LEC in 1979.

BOXES 1-2
LEC records, including correspondence, notes, memoranda, etc., ca. 1977-1983,
1984-1985

BOXES 3-4
LEC records, including correspondence, notes, memoranda, etc., ca. 1986

BOXES 5-7
LEC records, including correspondence, notes, memoranda, etc., ca. 1987

BOXES 8-10
LEC records, including correspondence, notes, memoranda, etc. Material includes Celebrity Auction, 1988, Hard Rock Café opening, 1989; publicity and events, and environmental forum, 1988-1989

BOXES 11-12
LEC records, including correspondence, notes, memoranda, etc., ca. 1990-1993

BOX 13
LEC reports including annual reports, national reports, evaluation reports, progress reports, etc., ca. 1982-1995

BOX 14
Printed material including LEC publications, newsletters, flyers, etc. Material includes Waysider, ca. 1975; The Sydney Harold: A life Education Centre, Publication; The Tide is Turning: poetry on the human situation by Ted Noffs, no date; 1975-1993

BOX 15
Newscuttings and photocopies of newscuttings concerning Life Education Centres, ca. 1984-1993; photocopies of promotional letters, ca. 1983-1989

BOX 16
National Director’s records, including correspondence, memoranda and notes. Material concerns LEC United Kingdom, ca. 1987-1989; Murray Raine Puppet program, 1989; LEC products, 1988-1989

BOX 17-19
Executive Director’s records, including correspondence, minutes, memoranda, notes, etc. Folders labelled: staff communication; state directors; LEC National Coordinators Committee; National Committee (deceased), 1982-1983; LEC National Board of Trustees and Directors; teleconferences; personal, NSW Representative Council; National Aboriginal Program Review; and School and Educator Coordinator, 1990

BOXES 20-21
Commercial Director’s records, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, and notes. Material concerns products, purchasing, and repairs to mobile units and equipment etc., 1987-1991

BOX 22
Commercial Director’s records, including folders labelled: LEC, NSW; programs and curriculum; wages and award; Singapore; Taiwan; South Africa; Hong Kong; State Directors’ Conference December 1989; costs for mobile LEC, phase 2; products purchased; ca. 1990

BOX 23
Commercial Director’s records, including folders labelled: staff; technical workshop; mobile classroom plans and designs; press and press releases; newsletters etc.; NSW state government; taxation; ca. 1990

BOX 24
Commercial Director’s records, including folders labelled: State Representative Council; legal material; miscellaneous memoranda and correspondence; LEC South Australia; LEC Top End; LEC Western Australia; ca. 1990

BOX 25
Commercial Director’s records, including folders labelled: Aboriginal program; conferences and seminars; federal government; fundraising; finance and fundraising; insurance; products; ca. 1990

BOX 26
Commercial Director’s records, including folders labelled: National Board, minutes etc.; LEC NSW, including board minutes etc.; LEC Australian Capital Territory; LEC Tasmania; LEC Queensland; LEC Hunter; LEC Victoria; ca. 1988-1990

BOX 27
Commercial Director’s records, including folders labelled: LEC New Zealand; LEC Asia; LEC Bangkok and Thailand; LEC United States; England, including legal, 1986; ca. 1988-1990

BOX 28
Commercial Director’s records, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, and notes. Material relates to products, purchasing, repairs to mobile units and equipment etc., 1991-1992

BOX 29
LEC records, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, and notes. Material includes folders labelled: Aboriginal affairs; ca. 1986; program evaluation, 1987; New Zealand, 1984-1985; 1987; 1990; LEC Victoria, 1987-1988; LEC Hunter, 1988-1989

BOX 30
LEC records, including folders labelled: LEC Trustees and Board minutes, 1989; LEC Queensland, 1988-1989; LEC NSW, 1987-1989;

BOX 31
LEC records including folders labelled: LEC Victoria, 1988-1989; Tasmania, 1987-1989; LEC New South Wales, 1988; miscellaneous, including correspondence, 1988-1989

BOX 32
LEC records including folders labelled: Colyton 1981-1987; conferences and seminars, 1987; equipment, 1986-1987; staff, 1988; funding central, 1987; products, 1986-1987

BOX 33
LEC records including folders labelled: mobile classroom quotes, 1987-1988; towing vehicle, ca. 1987-1988; special purpose vehicles, 1986; NSW state government, 1986-1987;

BOX 34
LEC records, including correspondence, minutes, memoranda, notes, reports, etc, from NSW regional offices, 1985-1991

BOX 35
LEC records from NSW regional offices including folders labelled: Newcastle; National Committee meeting; Central Coast; NSW Representative Council submission, 1989; Coffs Harbour; Orange, etc.; Clarence Valley; Hunter Valley, ca. 1986-1988

BOXES 36-37
Development Manager’s records, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, and notes. Material concerns South Africa; Malaysia; India; Spain; World Health Organization; APEX; UNESCO, etc., 1988-1993

BOXES 38-39
LEC records including draft Evaluation Report of the LEC Program, 1987; correspondence concerning campaigns and events including the official opening of the Life Education Centre, 1980; Buy a Brick Campaign, 1984; Rock Around the Park Celebrity Auction, 1987; Powerhouse Celebrity Auction, 1988; Vicki Keith Swim, 1989; school visits accounts book, 1990

BOXES 40-41
Records of the Education Coordinator, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, and notes. Material concerns training programs, evaluation questionnaires, teaching manuals, telexes sent, etc., 1980-1991

BOXES 42-46
LEC records relating to education, including school bookings and visits, Mobile Life Education Unit, draft workbooks and teacher manuals, evaluation of teachers manuals and student workbooks; class and parent visits, teachers’ reports, programs and curriculum, evaluation reports, visitor’s book, 1984-1987; ca. 1981-1989

BOX 47
LEC Records relating to general donations, 1987-1990; sticker ideas, including drawings, ca. 1981; funding applications, ca. 1981-1983; 20th anniversary fundraising, 1984; Catholic education, 1989-1990; agreements of New Zealand Life Education Centres; Representative Council NSW, 1988;

BOX 48
LEC records relating to Executive Officers reports and papers, 1990; staff national secretariat fortnightly reports; 1990; National Trustee & Directors Board papers, 9 May 1990; LEC minutes of telephone conferences, 1990; LEC National Committee minutes, 1981; LEC strategic plan: Nelson Parkhill BDO, 1989-1990; staff communication, director of LEC programs; 1990; public relations and events, 1988.

BOXES 49-51
LEC Records, including correspondence, reports and notes, State Directors’ reports, and minutes and agendas. Material concerns regional and international Life Education Centres, including Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, United Kingdom, United States, and South-East Asia, ca. 1985-1992

BOX 52
LEC records relating to educators and education, 1988; National Community Health Program Grant, 1987-1988; Buy a Brick Campaign, 1984; miscellaneous costs and staffing, 1984-1987

BOXES 53-54
LEC records relating Potts Point and Terry Hills, including lists of school visits; 1987-1988

BOX 55
LEC records relating to Queensland LEC, ca. 1989; New Zealand LEC, 1988-1991

BOX 56
Financial Controller records, including correspondence and financial statements, ca. 1988

BOX 57
LEC records concerning the National Committee, including minutes and agendas; mobile units; Colyton; publicity;1981-1983

BOXES 58-59
General Operations Manager's records, including correspondence, memoranda, minutes and agenda, reports, etc., ca. 1980-1992

BOX 60
LEC records concerning the Channel 9 National Television Appeal; including donations, bank deposits, correspondence etc., 1988

BOX 61
LEC records including correspondence with politicians and the NSW state government, ca. 1983-1985; a list of selected accounts, 1985; attendance statistics, 1980-1988; Wesley Noff’s message book, 1989-1990

BOX 62
LEC records concerning educators and education, including correspondence, memoranda, notes, etc., ca. 1988-199; Life Education Committee Handbook, ca. 1990

BOX 63
LEC Records concerning the Chief Executive Officer, 1981-1986; the National Director, 1985-1995; and the Executive Director, LEC United States, 1990-1992

BOX 64
LEC records concerning publications correspondence, 1985-1986; National Aboriginal Coordinator memoranda, 1988-1989; Tasmania LEC, 1987-1988; Aboriginal Mobile Unit, ca. 1987-1989; Aboriginal Program Development; ca. 1986-1987; Western Rivers, NSW, ca. 1986-1987

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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

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