| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, payments summary, newsletters, accounts, leaflets, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Action Resource Centre (ARC). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The Action Resource Centre (ARC) became a registered charity in 1974. It specialises in applying business skills in supervising young people in job placements, supporting small businesses and other employment initiatives. Birmingham ARC is based in Hockley. Nature of support: In 1980 the Trust approved a £6,500 grant for up to two years to support ARC's Marketing and Selling Advice for the Small Business and Independent Designer project. A further grant of £1,000 was made in 1983. Later that year a final grant of £1,400 was made for the project. That same year a grant of £3,800 was made towards the appointment of an ARC marketing adviser for small businesses and voluntary organisations. In 1984 the Trust made a grant of £500 towards the publishing costs of a booklet on the West Midlands Marketing Project. Minutes: B&GSCT 5193, B&GSCT 5646, B&GSCT 5680, B&GSCT 5743, B&GSCT 5870. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/7/2(D)'. |