| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, leaflets, postcards, reports, invitation, project proposals and funding requests relating to Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) returned and disabled volunteer programmes. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Disability Programme. Applicant overview: Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) was established as a registered charity in 1962 to 1) advance education and aid in the relief of poverty, 2) promote the effective use of resources for the purposes of advancing education, 3) promote the voluntary sector, 4) send volunteers to share and develop their skills, 5) undertake and assist in works and projects of all kinds and 6) educate the public concerning the nature, causes and effects of poverty and limited education in other countries and to conduct and pursue research concerning these matters and to publish the results. VSO seek to work with partner agencies in countries of the South to develop national volunteering programmes so that international volunteering is not seen as something that only people from the North have the opportunity and aptitude to do. VSO also makes overseas voluntary placements, usually for two years, including opportunities for disabled volunteers. Nature of support: No grants were made. Minutes: DP 29/96. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/2/2-r'. |