| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, newspaper cuttings, copies of published material, project proposals, reports and funding requests relating to the Association for Neighbourhood Councils (ANC). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The ANC is an advocate for the concept of neighbourhood councils. The neighbourhood council is independent from local and national government and is designed to give voice to ordinary people who may not be heard in the halls of power and to ensure that policy makers hear these voices. This action in turn leads to a sense of community, community empowerment and self-help. Neighbourhood councils can undertake a vast range of activities from cleaning up vandalism to operating day care centres to inputs into urban planning. The ANC was created in 1970 to research and campaign for the application of neighbourhood council structures in the UK. Nature of support: In 1978 the Trust approved three annual grants of £8,000 per annum. Minutes: B&GSCT 4790. Notes: Due to a lack of local government support the West Midlands branch of ANC was suspended in June 1979. File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/7/19'. |