| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, reports, leaflets, accounts and funding requests relating to the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Reconciliation Programme. Applicant overview: The FWCC exists to encourage fellowship among all the branches of the Religious Society of Friends. The FWCC was formed in 1937 to 'facilitate loving understanding of diversities among Friends while we discover together, with God’s help, our common spiritual ground' and 'to facilitate full expression of our Friends’ testimonies in the world'. The FWCC World Office is in London and there are Section offices with secretaries and committee structures to serve the four FWCC Sections: Europe & the Middle East Section, Section of the Americas, Africa Section and Asia-West Pacific Section. Nature of support: In 1987 the Trust agreed to a small travel grant for two FWCC members to travel to Russia. In 1988 the FWCC was allocated £1,500 towards travel costs, £3,000 for three years to support the London FWCC office, £3,500 for three years to the Africa section of FWCC and £5,000 for a single grant for the 1991 World Gathering. The London office and Africa section grants were subsequently increased by £500 per annum. In 1994 the Trust approved a single grant of £5,000 for 1995 on the advice of Reconciliation Programme Relevant Trustees. That same year this grant was extended to three years in total. In 1996 three further grants in the same amount were agreed. Minutes: BCT 54, BCT 656, B&GSCT 6675, B&GSCT 6871, B&GSCT 7445, B&GSCT 7619, B&GSCT 7791, RP 20/94, RP 3/95. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '1/1'. |