| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, leaflets, accounts, annual reports, newspaper cuttings, newsletters, reports and funding requests relating to the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: COSAWR is an organisation of South African war resisters and conscientious objectors in Britain and the Netherlands who have become political refugees rather than serve in the apartheid armed forces. COSAWR functions as a self-help group raising the issue of militarism and war resistance in South Africa, providing assistance to refugees and public information and research activities. Nature of support: In 1983 the Trust approved a single £1,000 grant subject to review for work with military refugees. Three further grants were subsequently approved. In 1986 the Fund made a grant to COSAWR of £500. Minutes: B&GSCT 5840, B&GSCT 6075, B&GSCT 6365, BCF 2675. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '2/3/1'. |