| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews and funding requests relating to Praxis Community Projects. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Asylum, Immigration and Resettlement Programme. Applicant overview: Praxis aims to relieve poverty, sickness and distress of members of the public, particularly refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants; and to improve the living conditions of this group through education and meaningful social activity. Praxis also works to raise public understanding of different cultures, to combat the effects of racism and to encourage integration through a range of positive social, cultural and educational activities. In 1999 Praxis proposed the Employment Development Programme (EDP) as a pilot to carry out research on how employment and business opportunities could be developed for refugee communities, specifically through the establishment of credit savings schemes, local trading schemes and community businesses. Praxis was established in 1983. Nature of support: In 1999 on the advice of Asylum, Immigration and Resettlement Programme Relevant Trustees the Trust agreed to a single grant of £8,000 to the EDP. Minutes: BCT 747, AIRP 16/99. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |