| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, leaflets, payments summary, minutes, reports, accounts and funding requests relating to the BBC Continuing Education Department's television series, 'Speak for Yourself'. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The target audience of the 'Speak for Yourself' television series is adults from all ethnic communities in which English is a second language. The aim is to instruct the audience in strategies for dealing with common social situations and to explore cultural differences between different groups. The television programme is supported by a radio series for teachers and is linked to advice via a telephone service, plus referrals to local organisations including Birmingham Interpreting and Translating (BIT). Nature of support: The Trust provided two annual £5,000 grants to meet non-broadcasting adult literacy costs with effect from September 1980. The Trust also provided £1,000 to establish a referral network in advance of the broadcasting of 'Mixed Feelings', a BBC programme about women's feelings following abortion. Minutes: B&GSCT 5031, B&GSCT 5032, B&GSCT 5089, B&GSCT 5865. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File numbered '4/1'. |