| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, reports, funding requests, accounts and copies of published material relating to the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The FWCC exists to encourage fellowship among all the branches of the Religious Society of Friends. The FWCC was formed in 1937 to 'facilitate loving understanding of diversities among Friends while we discover together, with God’s help, our common spiritual ground' and 'to facilitate full expression of our Friends’ testimonies in the world'. The FWCC World Office is in London and there are Section offices with secretaries and committee structures to serve the four FWCC Sections: Europe & the Middle East Section, Section of the Americas, Africa Section and Asia-West Pacific Section. Nature of support: The Trust made a series of annual £1,500 grants to the FWCC's London headquarters plus an additional £1,500 to underwrite the deficit from 1976. In 1980 the annual grant was increased to £2,000. A series of annual £2,000 grants were also made to FWCC's Africa section for the same period. A Friend conference in Botswana in 1977 received a £1,000 grant from the Trust with a further £2,000 committed to refugee work following the wrapping up of the Quaker International and Social Affairs Programme (QISAP), Nairobi and the transfer of these responsibilities to the FWCC. An emergency £500 grant was made toward the medical needs of a representative of the American Friends who required medical treatment while visiting the FWCC Africa Section. In 1979 a small grant was made to FWCC's European Section to purchase replacement parts for simultaneous translation equipment. Minutes: B&GSSCT 4199, B&GSCT 4200, B&GSCT 4293, B&GSCT 4470, B&GSCT 4544, B&GSCT 4626, B&GSCT 4850, B&GSCT 4861, B&GSCT 4999, B&GSCT 5054, B&GSCT 5078, B&GSCT 5079. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File numbered '1/1'. |