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Replies to requests for donations, in alphabetical order. Includes samples of original request, follow up, third and fourth appeal.

Donation slips from a SPAID fundraising appeal begun soon after the broadcast of Yorkshire Television documentary ‘Alice: a fight for life’ (aired 20 July 1982). Visually the form used for the appeal focused more on asbestos in the home than on the asbestos industry.

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.

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 re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme, recommendation that the grant be discontinued, OEDA's rejoinder, deferral of the decision, intense OEDA campaigning for reconsideration. The grant was not renewed or replaced.

The aggregation originally included some unique originals and multiple copies of OEDA's appeal against the decision to not renew the LBG grant, 1995. The originals were transferred to aggregation OEDA/J/2/1/5, while the duplicates have been disposed of in line with our appraisal policy.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes compilation of requests for OEDA publication 'Asbestos facts', anonymised yet with post code.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme.

In 2001 London Boroughs Grants was one of five organisations that merged together to form the Association of London Government in the spring of 2001.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes extensive application for refunding, containing detailed financial information, an anonymised listing of new OEDA cases in the London region, self assessment, samples of OEDA policies and forms, etc.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes anonymised printout of special interest cases from OEDA case database, 1 July 1997, and copy of grant application, 1 November 1996.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes copy of 'Business plan E.M. Project 1996-1999', which proposed an expansion of the extant Electron Microscope Unit.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme, decision to terminate the grant, appeal against the decision.

Contains letters in support of SPAID / OEDA, correspondence and papers re SPAID / OEDA campaign March 1995 to get support from MPs to solve the organisation's funding crisis and to renew their efforts to highlight asbestos problems through Parliamentary Questions. Nancy Tait also considered using BBC South's programme ‘First sight: a handful of dust' (16 March 1995) in support of her appeal against LBG's decision to terminate the grant.

Includes photocopies of press coverage on women 'who fight the dust that kills', 1976.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through London Boroughs Grant Scheme.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through London Boroughs Grant Scheme.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme and London Boroughs Grant Unit (LBGU) decision that SPAID must undergo a management review.

Includes

• correspondence with SPAID trustees, agenda of meeting of SPAID trustees 26 April 1990, minutes of meetings of SPAID trustees 5 December 1989 and 1 June 1989
• summaries of problems in interactions with LBGU

Financial records of SPAID / OEDA 1982-2005, in reverse chronological order. For 1988-1990, there are highly detailed spending records on the Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU).

Includes copies of audited accounts, listings of accruals and reversals, annual income and expenditure sheets, annual balance sheets, profit and loss summaries, reports to the auditor, annual electron microscope costs for some years, National Insurance Employer's Annual Return for some years, separate account sheets for OEDA while both organisations overlapped 1993-1995.