| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, newsletters, minutes, leaflets, reports, agendas, accounts, application form, and funding requests relating to the Friends Service Council (FSC). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The FSC is the standing committee responsible for the overseas work of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain (London Yearly Meeting) and in Ireland (Ireland Yearly Meeting, formerly Dublin Yearly Meeting). According to the 1977 annual report, the FSC aims to find moral solutions to global problems, provide opportunities for dialog between hostile groups, influence the powerful and the privileged and promote a ferment of ideas under the auspices of the Quaker ethos of respect for individual rights and collective responsibility. Nature of support: The Trust provided a £10,000 block grant over five years to the FSC for a five year period effective 1966 plus £2,000 annual subscriptions. This was an increase in previous annual grants of £1,600, which from October 1959 to January 1966 amounted to £10.000 including smaller supplementary grants. By 1969 the FSC had disbursed these funds in a number of projects including: Nigeria/Biafra reconciliation, feasibility studies to expand the Geneva premises, work camps in Spain and South Tyrol, Australia, the Middle East peace work of Paul and Jean Johnson, Laurence Naish's visit to Brummana High School in Lebanon, the FSC Policy Conference in Guildford and expenses towards the publication of 'Quaker Encounters' by J. Ormerod. Annual £2,000 grants were continued until 1975, though the use of £10,000 non-specific three-year block grants was continued through 1979. This grant was decreased to £5,000 in 1980 due to financial considerations, with most of the grant being used to fund Quaker Peace and Service Activities (QPS). Minutes: B&GSCT 3239, B&GSCT 3896, B&GSCT 3989, B&GSCT 4045, B&GSCT 4873, B&GSCT 5081, BCF 2099, BCF 2100. Notes: Itemised accounts from the FSC clearly demonstrate how Trust grants were used. File organised generally by date from newest to oldest with some file groupings containing individual exchanges of correspondence that would otherwise be out of sequence. File numbered '1/4'. |