| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, programme, reports and funding requests relating to the Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council (WVSC): Women's Development Fund (WDF). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Gender Programme. Applicant overview: WVSC is one of over two hundred councils for voluntary service throughout England and Wales. WVSC is a local development agency promoting effective voluntary action. It became a registered charity in 1981 and is also a company limited by guarantee independent from government. WVSC acts as a focal point for local voluntary action, provides a resource and information centre for the voluntary sector, develops new work to meet new needs and links up local agencies with similar concerns and assists in the presentation of their views to governmental and other agencies. The WVSC established a grant-giving scheme for women's groups in the area supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. Nature of support: In 1997 the Trust allocated £5,000 of an annual £25,000 budget for West Midlands local development funds for women's group to the WDF. Minutes: BCT 502, GP 4/98, GP 3/00. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'W/3'. |