| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, copies of newspaper cuttings, press release and funding requests relating to The Lawlor Foundation. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: The Lawlor Foundation was established in 1988 by Edward and Virginia Lawlor in memory of their son, Peter. Since its inception the Lawlor Foundation distributed over £2.2 million in grants to organisations working with troubled adolescents and projects underpinning the peace process in Ireland, the relief of poverty and the advancement of education in Northern Ireland. The Lawlor Foundation also awards grants to individual Irish students studying at universities and colleges in the UK. Nature of support: In 1989 the Fund declined a grant due to the over political overtones of the project. Minutes: BCF 3094. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |