| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, newspaper cuttings, minutes, annual reports, accounts and funding requests relating to Woodbrooke College (now Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: Woodbrooke was founded in 1903 as a dedicated Quaker study centre in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Woodbrooke's premises were donated by George Cadbury who had once lived there. Woodbrooke College became a registered charity in 1963. It provides educational and conference centres, operates a library as well as a cafe. Nature of support: The Trust made a series of small regular small grants to Woodbrooke from the 1950s to the 1970s. In 1977 the Trust approved a grant of £2,000 to allow a student and his family to reside at Woodbrooke while attending a course in Centre for Urban and Regional Studies course. That same year course fees for another student of £310 were made Woodbrooke. A number of other similar grants were made during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1979 the Fund approved an advance of £650 towards the publication of 'Memories of Rendel Harris'. Minutes: B&GSCT 4146, B&GSCT 4290, B&GSCT 4522, B&GSCT 4523, B&GSCT 4625, B&GSCT 4855, B&GSCT 5004, B&GSCT 5061, B&GSCT 5068, B&GSCT 5154, B&GSCT 5246, B&GSCT 5302, BFC 1831, BCF 2048. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '4/12'. |