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Mainly minutes of meetings of the OEDA Management Committee (MC), mostly signed. Further includes

• list of OEDA meetings 1993-1998
• occasionally also agendas of MC meetings
• some correspondence and papers for MC meetings 1994
• copy of certificate of registration of OEDA as a private limited company, October 1993

OEDA was set up to broaden and develop the work of SPAID. It was felt that this was necessary since, as governed by SPAID's trust deed, the organisation under Nancy Tait did not provide the structure and organisational procedures required for a limited liability association and by the London Borough Grants Unit (LBGU), the organisation's main source of funding. An executive director for OEDA was appointed in January 1994 but terminated at the end of March.

Executive correspondence and papers, chiefly arising from the appointment of the new executive director of OEDA from January 1994.

Includes the executive director's office diary, dark blue with metal corner, 22 x 15.2 cm, labelled by name'.

Minutes, agendas, and other papers (including financial information) re meetings of the OEDA Management Committee, April 1995 - September 1996.

Includes staff questionnaires with Nancy Tait's commentary; also OEDA interim report, November 1994.

This was Nancy Tait's personal set of Management Committee papers.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re OEDA management matters, in particular the transition from SPAID to OEDA and the OEDA strategic plan. Includes

• copies of OEDA strategic plan in various stages
• staff questionnaires and HR correspondence

Owen Tudor (b.1961) became a member of the OEDA Management Committee in 1995. Tudor represented the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on the Health and Safety Commission, the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council, and the Social Security Advisory Committee.

Copy of OEDA annual report 2002-2003 and minutes of the OEDA annual general meeting, 26 September 2002.

Correspondence. Somewhat sketchy.

Correspondence and papers re management review of SPAID following criticisms from (and a funding crisis at) the London Boroughs Grants Unit (LBGU). Includes:

• correspondence re the management review, June-October 1991
• funding applications to Marks & Spencer and the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
• copies of bids for the consulting contract for conducting the management review
• correspondence re the funding crisis at LBGU and its potential consequences for SPAID

Ring-bound copies of ‘Society for the Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases (SPAID) management review’, September 1991.

• final version, annotated by Nancy Tait, with a summary of the SPAID trustees' perception of it
• draft version, annotated (probably by Nancy Tait)
• draft version, annotated (probably by SPAID trustee L B Horam)

Correspondence and papers, including statement on SPAID's commitment and the organisation's role in the community, and copy of management consultants' preliminary report and action plan.

Proposals for the name of the successor organisation included 'Occupational Diseases Association' (ODA), 'Industrial Diseases of the Environment Association' (IDEA) and 'Investigation of Industrial Diseases of the Environment Association' (IIDEA).

Correspondence and papers re management consultant Michael Anderson's report and action plan. Anderson's brief was to provide a projection for OEDA as a new organisation meeting both the standards for financial procedures of the organisation's main funder (the London Boroughs Grants Unit) and the SPAID trustees' expectations of an organisation to which SPAID's assets could be passed on.

Michael Alexander John Anderson, b. 1930.

Includes

• information about SPAID
• copy of Sectoral Review covering the Advice and Information (Employment) field, London Boroughs Grants Unit (LBGU)
• details of SPAID's assets, July 1993

Correspondence and papers relating to the transition of the organisation from SPAID to OEDA.
Includes:
-correspondence with solicitor Elizabeth Cairns about the organisation's 'Memorandum and Articles of Association' and potential new structures
-draft copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the 'Industrial Diseases Association Limited'
-correspondence with the Central Register of Charities
-photocopy of the Trust Deed for: "The Society for the Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases"
-some copies of Trustee meeting minutes
-correspondence with London Boroughs Grants Unit (LBGU)
-copies of trustee correspondence and papers about the transition from SPAID to OEDA
-management committee papers
-consultant's report (by Michael Anderson)
-copies of financial records and LBGU forms
-correspondence with consultant Steve Whiting about the development of an OEDA fundraising strategy.

Copy of a brief report summarising impressions of OEDA gained during a three day visit undertaken in order to establish whether Lea Valley Business Advisors Ltd (LVBA) could undertake additional work for the organisation.

Marked 'Confidential' and not signed. The author was probably Mr John Lammond Lindsay of LVBA. From 1994 LVBA carried out various administrative and accountancy functions for the organisation, including payroll and tax year end paperwork.

Correspondence and papers re consultancy delivering a functional analysis of OEDA and a business plan, in time for the annual monitoring visit of the London Borough Grants Unit (LBGU).

Includes

• background material for business plan
• OEDA management committee papers
• consultancy’s business report

OEDA worked with consultants Albert Wright and Ritchie Smith of Premier Consultants and Business Link, respectively.

Mainly copy of the OEDA business plan for 2000, version of 6 September 1999, with intercalated material including a set of copies of the OEDA Newsletter.