| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, newsletters, reports, reports, invitations, copies of published material, booklets, newspaper cuttings and funding requests relating to Forums for Initiatives in Reparation and Mediation (FIRM). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Southfield Trust. Applicant overview: FIRM became a registered charity in 1987 though the organisation had been formed some years earlier. FIRM aims to promote for the public benefit and for the better preservation of law and order the provision of services directed towards mediation, arbitration, conciliation or reparation between persons, organisations or groups involved in disputes arising from criminal activity or interpersonal conflict where that dispute or conflict results from or may lead to acts of nuisance, vandalism, racial abuse or breach of the peace and to provide a focal point for the collection and exchange of information. Nature of support: In 1985 on the advice of Southfield Trustees the Trust approved three annual grants at £10,000, £7,000 and £5,000 per annum respectively. Minutes: B&GSCT 6357, ST 37/85. Notes: File 'a' contains the main sequence of documents including minutes; file 'b' contains various papers and publications. Files organised roughly by date from newest to oldest. Files numbered '5/8/6'. |