148:(NBCC) in 1930, Margaret Pyke was its first administrator. The NBCC changed its name to the National Birth Control Association in 1931 and then to the Family Planning Association in 1939. Since 1998 it has been known as FPA. In 1930 the purpose of the NBCC was "that married people may space or limit their families and thus mitigate the evils of ill health and poverty".
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Margaret Pyke was “tireless in creating and sustaining” the new NBCC clinics which were established across the UK to provide advice on contraception, marriage and all aspects of sex. The branches “were staffed entirely by volunteers (except for the doctors) and worked in borrowed premises”. In 1933
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By 1927, Geoffrey Pyke's interference in the day-to-day running of the school, hoping to achieve his grand ambitions for it, led to Susan Isaacs leaving her position. Pyke's subsequent bankruptcy led to the closure of The
Malting House School, and Margaret had to take a job as a headmistress's
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