| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, grant overviews, minutes, agendas, leaflets, newsletters, reports, financial papers and project proposal relating to Banner Theatre. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Racial Justice Programme. Applicant overview: Banner Theatre is one of Britain's longest established community theatre companies, with over three decades of experience of working with trade unions and marginalized and disadvantaged communities. Using a combination of theatre, music and song, digital imagery and 'actuality' (recorded voices captured by video or audio), the company creates dynamic, thought-provoking, issue-led productions based on people's real-life experiences and in support of disenfranchised sections of society. Nature of support: In 1994 the Trust approved a single grant of £10,000 towards the costs of research, planning and production of a multimedia package on racism in society. In 1996 the Trust agreed to a single grant of £5,000 towards the costs of an anti-racist production. Minutes: BCT 281, B&GSCT 7788, RJP 6/96. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'B/1'. |