ABSTRACT
The philanthropic and patronized forms of social institutions and organizations for leisure ought, therefore, to make way for others with a different basis. The relationship should be the reverse of that which tends to exist to-day, where public money is given to be spent by voluntary bodies beyond the reach of public criticism. Perhaps voluntary workers can be incorporated into schemes which owe their origin to the decisions of Local Authorities, as is the case in the basic social services at the present time. A beginning in this direction has been made by the Community Centres on the municipal housing estates and by the Institute of Leisure at Wigan. The other chief avenue open for the provision of independent, non-commercial leisure is that Trades Unions should seriously cater for the recreational activities of their members. Trades Union meetings in North country tend to be merely a business discussion, often held in a room of a public-house.
