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Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, March to July 1994. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, March and April 1991. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

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

In 1999 the LBG administrators proposed a merger of OEDA and the London Hazards Centre, to which both organisations objected.

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.

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

Grant applications, in chronological order, for sums ranging from £1000 to over £100,000, as well as unspecified sums.

The main source of income for the organisation from 1983 were grants through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme (and donations).

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.

Organisatorial correspondence and papers.

Display board on SPAID's 'Tackle a tiddler' competition, 1993. Labelled 'SPAID'.

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.