| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, CV, leaflets, annual reports, project proposals and funding requests relating to various peace and international themes applications. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: This file contains a number of applications under the peace and international portfolio. These include the Student Peace Project (SPS) which encourages students to include a peace dimension in their theses, Nuclear Free Pacific (NFP), later Women Working for a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific (WWNFIP), which opposes the testing or deployment of nuclear weapons in the Pacific and supports the independence and self-government of Pacific states against the geo-political ambitions of world superpowers, the Switzerland Yearly Meeting for work relating to conscientious objection, the Peace Tax Campaign, Selly Oak Peace Council (SOPC), a local community organisation that campaigns jointly with other peace groups for nuclear disarmament and a number of other projects and seminars. Nature of support: In 1984 a small travel grant was made by the Trust toward a seminar entitled 'Towards a Theology of Peace' in Budapest. In 1986 the Fund made a single £500 grant to NFP. That same year £500 was allocated to the Switzerland Yearly Meeting through Quaker Peace and Service. A grant of £950 was also made toward a symposium entitled 'Whither the Peace Movement?' A single grant of £100 was made by the Fund to SOPC in 1986. Several other grant applications were rejected. Minutes: B&GSCT 6022, B&GSCT 6335, B&GSCT 6392, B&GSCT 6406, B&GSCT 6463, BCF 2592, BCF 2656, BCF 2783, BCF 2696. Notes: File numbered '2/9/2'. |