| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, reports, accounts, newsletters, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Britain-Tanzania Society (BTS). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: The BTS was founded in 1975 by Bishop Trevor Huddleston, Amon Nsekela, Roger Carter and others in the UK and Tanzania. It is a non-political, non-governmental organisation. In the UK it has formed the Tanzania Development Trust (TDT), a charity, to support local projects in Tanzania. The Society aims to increase mutual knowledge, understanding and respect between the peoples of Britain and Tanzania through the following activities, 1) providing speakers and writers and running seminars in the UK on subjects relating to Tanzania, 2) welcoming visitors to the host country, 3) offering support and friendship to students, and 4) raising funds to finance small-scale community based projects in rural Tanzania, through our sister organisation the TDT. Nature of support: In 1980 the Trust forwarded £400 for a tour of rural development projects in Tanzania. In 1981 a further £2,000 was provided by the Fund for travel costs. A further £500 was provided by the Trust for travel in 1984. Minutes: B&GSCT 5051, B&GSCT 6018, B&GSCT 6285, BCF 2141. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '7/8'. |