| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, reports, project proposals and funding requests relating to consultancy work into establishing a West Midlands or Birmingham community information service. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Paul S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: In 1993 Anita Guy was sought out to conduct consultancy work to, 1) investigate appropriate models for resourcing the independent voluntary sector in Birmingham and Fermanagh, 2) incorporate a community information service into a community information service, 3) incorporate a technical aid service into a community information service subject to the agreement of interested parties, 4) investigate appropriate premises to provide a service base as and if required, 5) provide organisational and management development and training to West Midlands community projects which meet the criteria for priority assistance, and, 6) provide a financial administration service to the Community Organising Foundation. Nature of support: In 1993 the Fund offered a single grant of £24,000 to support the consultancy project for one year. Minutes: BCF 3299, BCF 3319, PSCT 1056. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/7/3'. |