| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, payments summary, accounts, Charity Commission summary, reports, project proposal and funding request relating to Windows for Sudan (WS), Wolverhampton. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: WS is a non-political, non-profit voluntary organisation initiated informally in 1999 based on the initiative of Sudanese community members in the UK. The WS mission is to support and promote the quality of life of Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and those living in neighbouring countries of Sudan. Specifically WS works to, 1) to relieve sickness, poverty and discrimination, 2) to improve access to mainstream services and enhance the opportunities available to its members, 3) promote the development of refugee communities and displaced persons, and 4) advance the of education of refugees from the horn of Africa and their dependents in the UK and Africa. WS became a registered charity in 2002. Nature of support: In 2001 the Trust approved three annual grants of £25,000 per annum towards core salary costs at WS. Minutes: BCT 1058. Notes: File organised by subject. File numbered 'W/8'. |