| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, copies of published material, accounts, reports, leaflets and funding requests relating to the British Council of Churches (BCC), Quaker Peace and Service (QPS) and other international peace applications. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: Quaker Peace and Service (QPS, now Quaker Peace and Social Witness, QPSW) was formed by the union of the Friends Service Council and the Friends Peace Committee. QPS aims to serve as a hub for local and national Quaker action for peace and justice and is committed to non-violent social change. QPS work strives to reflect and express Quaker testimonies to peace and non-violence, simplicity, equality and community, and truth and integrity. QPS supports Quaker witness in local communities and represent Quakers at a national level to parliament, government and the general public. QPS is also actively involved in international Quaker peace work. Unipal (A Universities’ Trust for Educational Exchange with Palestinians) seeks to facilitate a two-way process of education; providing English-language teaching in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon and introducing British students to a knowledge and understanding of the situation and daily lives of refugees. Unipal sends volunteers to the Middle East to work with Palestinians on a short-term basis in the summer, to teach English or to take part in other activities as needed and brings Palestinian teachers of English to Britain in order to study language courses and refresh their language by living with British families. Nature of support: In 1989 the Trust made a single grant of £3,000 towards a QPS Minority Rights Group Report on the Bedouin. Minutes: B&GSCT 7036, B&GSCT 7128. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File labelled '2/5/2'. |