| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, newspaper cuttings, accounts and funding requests relating to the Birmingham Association for Neighbourhood Councils (BANC). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: BANC was established to advocate for the creation of urban parish councils to encourage greater community involvement and representation in government at the community level. The aim of the urban parish council is to provide a more efficient, easier to run and more accountable form of local government. Nature of support: In 1982 the Fund made a single grant of £5,000 to BANC to meet the costs of its campaign for urban parish councils. In 1983 the Trust agreed to make a further £5,000 grant paid through the Stephen Lowe Charitable Trust. Minutes: B&GSCT 5836, BCF 2274. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/7/43'. |