| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overview, reports, leaflets and funding requests relating to the National Economic and Arms Conversion Working Group (NEACWG). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: A number of local authorities, including Manchester and Sheffield, are collaborating with Birbeck College and the Bradford School of Peace Studies to determine the interplay between local economies and the defence industry. The aim of research into this subject is to diversify and transfer defence related industries to non-defence alternatives. Nature of support: In 1988 the Trust approved a grant of £3,000 towards a feasibility study into the need for a national arms conversion advisory unit. Minutes: B&GSCT 6929. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |