| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, copy trust declaration, newspaper cuttings, copies of published material, accounts and funding requests related to the research of Lyn Wilson and Locomotion Enterprises. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: Lyn Wilson created Locomotion Enterprises in the northeast in collaboration with the Manpower Service Commission to address unemployment issues in the region. The Trust became interested in Wilson's experience and invited him to draw up a proposal for an employment consultancy. Locomotion Enterprises became a trust on 24 April 1979. Its aims are the furtherance, promotion, encouragement or provision of facilities for skills development, the alleviation of unemployment and support and aid for young tradesmen and handicraftsmen, education and training for industry and commerce, the preservation and restoration of artefacts of historical value and advisory and consultancy services relating to the above areas. Nature of support: The Trust provided £5,000 towards travel and staff costs though only half of this was spent before the project collapsed. Locomotion Enterprises reimbursed £2,000 that was unspent by this point. Minutes: B&GSCT 4789, B&GSCT 4823, B&GSCT 5245. Notes: Despite initial enthusiasm no projects materialised and critical staff involved in Locomotion Enterprises either left or were unable to devote time to a Birmingham based project aimed at alleviating poverty in the black community. File organised by date from newest to oldest. File labelled '7/6'. |