Correspondence and papers re application for a Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Critical Assistance Fund award, to cover the shortfall arising from termination of funding through the London Borough Grants Scheme. Instead of the funds to cover the shortfall, OEDA received a grant for a two day diagnostic to review the organisation's needs. Includes a copy of the diagnostic report.
Correspondence and papers re grant from the Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation, for a project to continue to provide OEDA's electron microscope (EM) facility.
OEDA applied for £ 30,000 to be used over a three-year period.
Correspondence and papers re the OEDA BBC 4 radio appeal, 14 March 2004. The appeal was presented by playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, whose sister had died of mesothelioma. After deduction of BBC costs, donations totalled £ 7210.
Includes
- colour photographs of Michael Frayn with Nancy Tait, from the recording session in February 2004
- appeal script in various stages
- letters accompanying donations
- materials from an earlier application for an OEDA BBC 4 radio appeal, 1998, with a list of all BBC 4 radio appeals 1996, including name of presenter and amount raised (exceeding £ 880,000)
There were extensive records of donations including photocopies of all VISA card transactions and cheques received. These have been disposed of in line with the appraisal policy.
Letter in support of Mr Lawrie Charles Hawkins.
Papers on prosecutions of waste disposal/recycling firms over deaths of employees. Inlcudes press coverage and notes by Dalton on Ian Ward who died while working for Norpol Recycling Ltd, Lancashire.
Sketches, correspondence, 9 colour photographs, various sizes, documents relating to Inverclyde Arts Foundation, tourist leaflets and photocopies from published histories of the area.
Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 2003.
Black cover, padded, with metal corner, 22 x 15 cm.
Copies of five appeal decisions 2003, won by Nancy Tait "by arguing that cases should be decided on the 'Balance of Probabilities'", with a covering letter to Rodney Nelson-Jones, solicitor.
Also copy of another appeal won in 1994 and copy of an appeal lost, May 2003, and some then current scientific literature on the problematic of fibre counts.
Copy of booklet HSE (2003) 'Statistics of fatal injuries 2002/03'
Outgoing correspondence, September to December 2003, in reverse chronological order.
Application for core funding from the Rowan Charitable Trust.
OEDA applied for £10,000 for 2003-2004, reducing to £5,000 and £2,000 over the following years.
Correspondence and papers re application for a Department of Health Section 64 grant. The application was for £68,100, spread out over a three year period. The grant was 'for central administrative costs'. Includes a draft of the application.
The application was successful.
S64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 provided power for the Secretary of Health to make grants to voluntary organisations in England whose activities support the Department of Health's policy priorities.
Correspondence and papers re application to Comic Relief, for a £5,000 grant to produce OEDA publications 'Pleural plaque' and 'Asbestos in your home' leaflets.
The application was successful..
Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers re OEDA fundraising appeal, 2003 (and onwards). Includes exchanges with journalist Julie Burchill and copies of her articles on OEDA loosing its core funding.
Contained a 82pp address list of individuals to whom personal injury lawyer Caroline Pinfold wrote in support of the OEDA funding appeal. This has been disposed of in line with our appraisal policy.