| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, newspaper cuttings, agendas, copies of newspaper cuttings, reports project proposals and funding requests relating to the Association for Neighbourhood Councils (ANC). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The ANC is an advocate for the concept of neighbourhood councils. The neighbourhood council is independent from local and national government and is designed to give voice to ordinary people who may not be heard in the halls of power and to ensure that policy makers hear these voices. This action in turn leads to a sense of community, community empowerment and self-help. Neighbourhood councils can undertake a vast range of activities from cleaning up vandalism to operating day care centres to inputs into urban planning. The ANC was created in 1970 to research and campaign for the application of neighbourhood council structures in the UK. Nature of support: In 1984 the Trust made a grant of £1,000 followed by two annual grants of £3,000 to the ANC to help the organisation obtain office space and secretarial help. In 1975 the Trust approved a grant of £275 to meet the balance of administrative costs required to bring an expert volunteer into an advisory capacity with ANC. In 1976 annual support was extended for three years at an annual commitment of £6,000. Minutes: B&GSCT 3844, B&GSCT 4025, B&GSCT 4172, B&GSCT 4196. Notes: File organised roughly from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/7/19'. |