| Description | Grant file containing reports, newsletters, academic journals and leaflets 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: No grants were made. Minutes: No minutes cited. Notes: Minutes and grant information is contained elsewhere in this sequence. File organised from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |