| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, file sheets, programmes, reports, payments summary, accounts, project proposals and funding requests relating to the George Bell Institute (GBI). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Justice and Peace Programme. Applicant overview: The Institute was founded with the support of the Birmingham-based Barrow Cadbury Trust in September 1996 in honour of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester from 1929 to 1958. An ecumenist and an internationalist, Bell is often remembered as a friend of the oppressed, a patron of writers and artists, a scholar of distinction and as a generous advocate for humanity at large. The purpose of the Institute is to search out writers, scholars and artists facing difficulties in any country and to provide the resources they may need to make their voice heard. It seeks to welcome them into an international community of life and thought where their vision will be valued and encouraged. GBI became a registered charity in 1997. Nature of support: In 1996 on the advice of Justice and Peace Programme Relevant Trustees the Trust approved three annual grants of £50,000 to help establish the Institute. In 1999 three and a half further grants were approved at £65,000 per annum. In 2001 the Trust agreed to grants totalling £525,000 over five years. Minutes: BCT 207, BCT 718, BCT 1015, JPP 8/95, JPP 13/95, JPP 1/96. Notes: File organised roughly from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |