| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, reports, accounts, copies of published material, leaflets, accounts, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Fawcett Society. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: Fawcett is a leading UK campaigning organisation for women's equality and rights, at home, at work and in public life. Since Millicent Garrett Fawcett's successful parliamentary campaign for the women's vote the Society have continued to keep women's rights on the political agenda and in the public eye. The Society uses independent research and evidence to better understand key issues and generate media coverage and reports and briefings that both increase awareness and put pressure on powerful policy and decisions makers to act. The Fawcett Society became a registered charity in 2005. Nature of support: In 1999 the Trust approved three grants totalling £107,500 towards salary and running costs at the Society. Minutes: BCT 815. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'F/2'. |