| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overview, newsletters, reports, copies of published material, booklets, newspaper cuttings and funding requests relating to Forums for Initiatives in Reparation and Mediation (FIRM). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: FIRM became a registered charity in 1987 though the organisation had been formed some years earlier. FIRM aims to promote for the public benefit and for the better preservation of law and order the provision of services directed towards mediation, arbitration, conciliation or reparation between persons, organisations or groups involved in disputes arising from criminal activity or interpersonal conflict where that dispute or conflict results from or may lead to acts of nuisance, vandalism, racial abuse or breach of the peace and to provide a focal point for the collection and exchange of information. Nature of support: In 1990 three annual grants of £20,000 per annum were approved to FIRM. Minutes: B&GSCT 7195. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File numbered '5/8/6'. |