| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, excerpts from academic journals, leaflets and funding requests relating to the University of Leicester, Unit for Membership Based Organisations (UMBO). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The Unit was established at the University of Leicester, in part as a response to the decline of the National Co-operative College, as an academic institution fostering the co-operative principle. The Unit works to support the struggling credit union movement, offering certificates, diplomas and masters degrees. It also administers an open learning teaching programme with purpose-written teaching materials. Nature of support: In 1999 the Trust agreed to two annual grants of £11,500 per annum towards the recruitment of administrative support. Minutes: BCT 749. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |