Informational papers and correspondence about the London Boroughs Grants Unit (LGBU), Scheme (LBGS) and Committee (LBGC).
Includes:
-memoranda, information sheets, and guidelines about the London Borough Grants Scheme
-some handwritten notes about the LGBU by Nancy Tait
-some correspondence with the LGBU (1990-1991)
-papers about a London Borough Grants Scheme funding crisis
-newspaper clippings and articles relating to the LBGS
-memos from the London Voluntary Service Council
-some SPAID correspondence about applications for grants
-copies of SPAID balance sheets
-copies of reapplication for funding, LBGU, 1991-1992
-copies of 'Voluntary Voice' newsletter of the London Voluntary Groups: December 1990 issue 51, February 1991 Issue 52, and March 1991 Issue 53
-some case correspondence
-copy of Annual Report for SPAID, period ended 31 March 1989
Correspondence and papers relating to a funding bid to the Upper Lee Valley Partnership’s Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) Funded Programme, which relied on support from the European Regional Development Fund. Includes copy of OEDA's component of the SRB application, also copy of a separate application to the Department of the Environment for support under the Environmental Action Fund, minutes of meetings of the Enfield & Haringey Urban Regeneration Forum 1994-1995.
It is not quite clear whether OEDA applied for £ 30,000 or for £ 22,000.
Correspondence and papers re repeated applications for funding in support of an expansion of the Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU) by commissioning a second microscope to service an additional 90 cases per year. Structured as follows:
- grant application 1996 including 'EM business plan for 1996-1999'
- grant application 1995
- correspondence with Jeol including quotes and product information on EM equipment
- Steve Whiting's research on funding opportunities for OEDA, spring 1995, including ‘Structure and purpose of a business plan’, ‘An investigation of fundraising and support gathering sources and the choices for OEDA’, ‘Notes on a conference on fundraising’ and notes on a meeting with Owen Tudor (TUC) March 1995
Correspondence and papers relating to a successful grant application for the post of OEDA community liaison officer. The explicit aim of the project was to 'undertake a feasability study into the best ways of communicating with and enabling victims of industrial diseases and their families to manage their problems and to obtain DSS benefits and legal compensation'. Includes
- reports to National Lottery Charities Board 1997-2000
- job description, job ad for the post, other papers regarding appointments to the post
- copy of grant offer
- copy of successful application marked ‘our win’ and ‘Joan’s copy’ (1996)
The reference is to Nancy Tait's friend and colleague Joan Griffiths, also a member of the OEDA Management Committee. Out of this National Lottery funded project grew the OEDA publication 'Asbestos facts' (2000).
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 fundraising and remembrance event ‘Balloon race’, 31 October 1998, which netted £ 239.
Includes colour photographs and draft of the balloon launch order, which featured Nancy Tait, Alan Dalton, Bangladeshi-born British singer Gouri Choudhury, father Fred of St Barnabas Bethnal Green, London. The event took place in Mile End Park opposite St Barnabas, Bethnal Green, London.
Fundraising correspondence, structured roughly as listed in the inscription on the container.
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.
Correspondence re donations, chiefly with insurance archaeologist Nick David of InSolutions whom Nancy Tait had met at an Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) seminar c. 2002. Includes copy of David's presentation on InSolutions at the seminar in question (in the form of a printout of his Powerpoint slides).
Correspondence and papers re the lease of office space at 6 Station Road, Cuffley, and the eventual relocation of the Cuffley office to Mitre House, Enfield.
Includes an estimate for removal of asbestos from Cuffley office, 1984. Also includes the original document: Underlease of the first floor offices, Cuffley, 1983.
Display boards featuring the following equipment
- JEOL 100C Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
- JEOL JSM 35 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Plasma Chemistry Unit
- Reichert Ultramicrotome
- 2 images of JEOL JSM-T220 Scanning Microscope
Letter in support of Mr Lawrie Charles Hawkins.
Overview of file locations in the OEDA office, 28 February 2007.
Collection of leaflets arranged in alphabetical order by reference code, beginning with BAL1 ('Tell us about it') and ending with Z3 ('Compensation recovery scheme'). Within leaflet type, in reverse chronological order.
Replicates the original arrangement. Note however that Nancy Tait's instructions for how new leaflets were to be listed was 'by title - alphabetically' and to 'give leaflet number & date, i.e. (1) Attendance allowance, (2) DS 702, (3) Nov 2002'.
SPAID/OEDA collected benefits leaflets widely. Retained here are those relating directly to the organisation's core activities, such as NI 3 ('If you have pneumoconiosis or byssinosis’) or FB 29 ('Help if someone dies’), while leaflets with no specific relationship with the charity, such as D11 ('NHS dental treatment’) or CWP1 ('Extra help with heating costs’) have been disposed of.