| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, copies of published material, annual reports, payments summary, agendas, newsletters, postcards and funding requests relating to various overseas voluntary projects. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: Returned Volunteer Action (RVA), formally entitled Volunteer Overseas Service Action (VOSA) registered as a charity in 1966 with the aims of providing further education for men and women, and to encourage them to undertake voluntary charitable work, such a social service and other similar charitable activities in various parts of the world. International Voluntary Service (IVS) was founded in 1921 and became a registered charity in 1978 with the aim of affording opportunities by which men and women, in a spirit of friendship, international understanding and voluntary discipline, may, without regard to their race, religion, creed or politics be encouraged and enabled to give to the community, either individually or in groups, effective voluntary service. Nature of support: The Trust continued its support for the RVA, begun in 1975, though at a gradually decreasing level. For the financial years 1984 to 1985, 1985 to 1986 and 1986 to 1987 grants were made for £2,500 decreasing to £1,500. In 1986 the Trust allocated £1,000 towards the cost of IVO work in the West Midlands. The Fund made a single grant of £100 towards the travel costs of a young doctor interested in community medicine to allow him to travel to The Gambia to work with Save the Children. Minutes: B&GSCT 5956, B&GSCT 6139, B&GSCT 6370, B&GSCT 6402, BCF 2419. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '7/10' |