| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, reports, accounts, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit (BRAMU). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: BRAMU was established in 1989 as a result of a series of racial attacks in the city of Birmingham. BRAMU's remit is to address racial attacks at all levels. The Unit operates through casework to provide immediate support to people subject to racial attack. BRAMU directly assists in building cases against perpetrators and actively urging statutory and voluntary bodies to stop attacks. BRAMU is also a training, information and monitoring agency, working with individuals and groups to prevent racial attacks throughout the city. Nature of support: In 1998 the Trust approved three annual grants of £17,000 towards salary costs associated with a BRAMU administrators post. Minutes: BCT 600. Notes: File not numbered. |