| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, annual reports, CVs, person specifications and leaflets relating to the Birmingham Women's Enterprise Development Agency (WEDA). Funding source(s): n/a. Applicant overview: The main purpose of WEDA is to assist women in creating a living for themselves by self-employment or by establishing new businesses. WEDA also acts, 1) to identify women in the community who are interested in self-employment and business start up, especially low income women from ethnic minority groups, 2) to give support and advice to women individually or collectively about the option of self-employment and business start up, 3) to provide a range of intensive training programmes and seminars for women in all aspects of business life, 4) to help existing advisory and financial institutions to better communicate with women and vice-versa, 5) to act as a focal point for specialist technical and financial assistance to women's enterprise, 6) to enable women to overcome barriers to self-employment and business start up, and 7) to influence the availability of sources of finance by raising awareness of the benefit to themselves and to the economy of encouraging women's enterprise. Nature of support: No grants were made. Minutes: No minutes cited. Notes: File 'a' contains primarily WEDA minutes and correspondence, file 'b' contains primarily WEDA annual reports. These files contain administrative records including minutes and annual reports of Birmingham WEDA. Files organised from newest to oldest. Files numbered 'JM/W/7/1'. |