| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, reports, leaflets and funding requests relating to various overseas voluntary service projects. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: Returned Volunteer Action (RVA), formally entitled Volunteer Overseas Service Action (VOSA) registered as a charity in 1966 with the aims of providing further education for men and women, and to encourage them to undertake voluntary charitable work, such a social service and other similar charitable activities in various parts of the world. Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) was established as a registered charity in 1962 to 1) advance education and aid in the relief of poverty, 2) promote the effective use of resources for the purposes of advancing education, 3) promote the voluntary sector, 4) send volunteers to share and develop their skills, 5) undertake and assist in works and projects of all kinds and 6) educate the public concerning the nature, causes and effects of poverty and limited education in other countries and to conduct and pursue research concerning these matters and to publish the results. Nature of support: The Trust agreed to subsidise the publication of a health manual for overseas workers by BVP. This grant offer was withdrawn when the resulting publication failed to materialise. In 1978 the Trust provided RVA with a £5,000 pump priming grant. A further series of three £2,500 annual grants were approved by the Trust in 1981 to take affect from August of that year. Minutes: B&GSCT 4880, B&GSCT 4995, B&GSCT 5267. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '7/10'. |