| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, annual reports, agendas, accounts and funding requests relating to the COPE Leamington Spa Family Group Project. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: COPE was set up in 1981 as an independent voluntary organisation working on the premise that people cope well when the pressures of modern life are shared with friends. Family Groups, small informal neighbourhood groups for adults and children offer a solution to this problem. COPE provides advice and consultancy to local authorities and voluntary organisations on the ways and means of setting up Family Group projects. COPE trains professional workers as project organisers to organise and support Family Groups. Nature of support: In 1986 the Trust approved three annual grants of £1,500 to support a Family Group scheme in Leamington Spa. Minutes: B&GSCT 6606. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/3/40'. |