| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, reports, copies of published material, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Fircroft College Centre for Active Citizenship (CAS). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Paul S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: Fircroft College was founded in 1909 by George Cadbury Jr., grandson of Cadbury’s co-founder John Cadbury. Fircroft College of Adult Education is based in his former family home, a beautiful Edwardian building set in six acres of gardens. Fircroft was originally created to provide educational opportunities for some of the most disadvantaged and excluded members of society. In 1988 Fircroft College initially approached the Paul S. Cadbury Trust for support in launching a unit teach, train and construct new forms of working class organisation. This project proposal was subsequently refined and presented as the CAS. At its heart the Centre exists to enable citizens and their organisations to effectively express their own power, and to present their needs and demands in their own ways. Specifically, CAS aims to, 1) provide educational, training, conference and research services to enable community groups and individual citizens to develop the form of organisation most appropriate to them, 2) help to develop new forms of organisation appropriate to the social, political and economic structures which confront community groups in the 1990s, 3) make a distinctive contribution to the full-time residential training and education programme at Fircroft College, 4) be a national centre of best practice for community organising, training and evaluation, and 5) hold conferences and publish documents to disseminate the findings of its work. The Centre is based as Fircroft College. Nature of support: In 1989 the Paul S. Cadbury Trust approved three annual grants of £15,000 with a possible extension of up to five years. This grant was initially to be paid by the Fund but this was subsequently revised when the CAS was registered as a charity. In 1990 a further grant of £5,000 was approved to CAS from the Fund. That same year £5,000 was approved for the salary of a tutor. In 1991 Paul S. Cadbury Trust approved a grant of approximately £37,000 over a three-year period toward the employment of a second worker at the SAS. Minutes: BCF 3087, BCF 3150, BCF 3160, BCF 3271, BCF 3322, PSCT 783, PSCT 825, PSCT 882, PSCT 936, PSCT 975, PSCT 1037. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/7/8'. |