| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, reports, accounts, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Centre for Research and Innovation in Social Policy and Practice (CENTRIS) voluntary action report. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Paul S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: CENTRIS was set up in 1988. It is a British non-profit organisation, registered both as a charity and as a limited company. CENTRIS aims to support innovative social policy and practice. Its method is to work with partners active in the field to develop solutions to social issues, through a mixture of research and innovatory initiatives. Nature of support: In 1989 the Paul S. Cadbury Trust approved a single grant of £5,000 towards initial CENTRIS set-up costs. That same year three annual grants of £10,000 were approved. In 1990 the Trust agreed to a single grant of £21,000 towards survey work in the hope of releasing an additional £4,000 from the Lord Ashdown Charitable Settlement. In 1991 a single grant of £10,000 was released for the Community Organising Monitoring Project. A grant of £5,000 was also approved towards the publication costs of 'Voluntary Action in the 1990s'. The unpaid balance of £5,570 was rescinded in 1992. Minutes: B&GSCT 7230, BCF 3159, PSCT 746, PSCT 825, PSCT 881, PSCT 902, PSCT 920, PSCT 936, PSCT 938, PSCT 942, PSCT 987, PSCT 1020. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/7/3'. |