| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, leaflets, newsletters, copies of published material, press release, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Electoral Reform Society (ERS). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: EFS was founded in 1884 as the Proportional Representation Society by the Victorian naturalist, archaeologist and polymath Sir John Lubbock. Since then the EFS has been at the forefront of political change and remains the world’s oldest organisation concerned with elections and political reform, officially recognised by the United Nations as a non-governmental organisation in 1983. EFS expertise relates to all aspects of elections from consideration of appropriate methods of election to preparation of election rules, the training of staff, supervision of the election process, the counting of votes and the publication of election returns. Nature of support: In 1990 the Trust approved a single grant £5,500 for the costs of printing papers on the issues which are involved in establishing democratic societies in South Africa and Eastern Europe. Minutes: B&GSCT 7296. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |