| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, reports and funding requests relating to the Citizen Organising Foundation (COF). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Paul S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Community Organising Programme. Applicant overview: The COF is a registered charity whose mission is to create a network of competent, informed and organised citizens who act responsibly in the public life of their communities and are able to influence, for the common good, decisions which impact on their communities. To achieve this mission, COF has established an Institute that runs regular training seminars for community leaders and seeks professional organisers to help build broad-based citizens' organisations (BBOs). COF acts as the national umbrella organisation of the broad-based organising movement in Britain and Ireland. It is the focal point for an increasingly diverse alliance of congregations, community groups and labour organisations. COF became a registered charity in 1989. Nature of support: In 1988 the Paul S. Cadbury Trust approved five annual grants of up to £25,000 to help to establish the COF. In 1992 Paul S. Cadbury Trustees offered annual grants of up to £20,000 to launch a COF information unit, COF Reflects. In 1994 a further grant of £10,000 per annum for three years was agreed for COF East London. That same year a grant of up to £10,000 for five years was approved towards the purchase of a London base for COF. In 1995 the Barrow Cadbury Trust approved a further three years of support for COF Reflects at up to £10,000 per annum as well as a single supplementary grant of £35,000 for training costs in that year. A further grant was made at £20,000 per annum for three years for the support costs of work for local broad-based organisations plus £60,000 per annum for the same period towards COF training costs and £100,000 per annum for five years towards core costs commencing 1996/1997. In 1996 two grants were approved to allow COF to employ a public relations officer. In 1998 the Fund and Trust approved up to £5,000 to help establish Anglo-German links on community organising and community democracy. Minutes: BCT 58, BCT 59, BCT 60, BCT 150, BCT 151, BCT 152, BCT 247, BCT 335, BCT 649, BCT 942, BCT 943, BCF 2971, BCF 3574, BCF 3684, PSCT 687, PSCT 707, PSCT 825, PSCT 833, PSCT 878, PSCT 958, PSCT 974, PSCT 978, PSCT 979, PSCT 980, PSCT 981, PSCT 1023, PSCT 1078, PSCT 1085, PSCT 1097, COP 21/96. Notes: File organised roughly from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |