| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, payments summary, reports, accounts, annual reports, leaflets, presentation slides, copies of published material, newsletters, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Citizen Organising Foundation (COF). Funding source(s): Barrow 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 1995 the Trust agreed to three separate grants to COF. Two five year grants were approved at £100,000 per annum for core costs and £60,000 per annum for training costs. A single supplementary grant of £35,000 was also made towards immediate training expenses. The Fund also approved a matching grant of £60,000 per annum for five years to the six BBOs linked to the COF. Minutes: BCT 150, BCT 151, BCT 152, BCT 628, BCT 848, BCT 886, BCF 3458, BCF 3570, COP 1/95, COP 26/96, COP 4/97, COP 5/98, COP 13/98, COP 6/99, COP 22/99, COP 1/00. Notes: File organised roughly from newest to oldest. File numbered '7/88'. |