| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, payments summary, reports, newspaper cuttings, project proposal, accounts and funding requests relating to the Unit for the Development of Alternative Products (UDAP) at Coventry Polytechnic. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: UDAP was based on the North East London Polytechnic and Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards Committee initiative to develop alternative production proposals to counter possible factory closures and worker redundancies. The aim of the UDAP scheme is to help and encourage the exploration of socially useful products for peaceful purposes, their technical and commercial evaluation, their design and development, possible modes of production, and their contribution to society. Nature of support: In 1984 the Trust approved three annual grants of £15,000 to UDAP. Minutes: B&GSCT 5961. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File numbered 'AW/7/17'. |