| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, annual reports, leaflets, newsletters, minutes, agendas and funding requests. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Southfield Trust. Applicant overview: All Faiths For One Race (AFFOR) is a Birmingham based organisation involved in anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigns that was founded in 1970. AFFOR also carries out research, publishing and educational activities. A report by Ultan Russell of the Community and Race Relations Unit of the British Council of Churches described AFFOR's work in 1977 as: '(i) Pressurizing the local authority on its dispersing black families policy, (ii) Assisting in the establishment of the Handsworth Law Centre, (iii) BIT which gives interpreting, translating and duplicating facilities to groups who would not otherwise have access to it, (iv) Work regarding racist movements, (v) Pressurizing the local authority on questions of Muslim Prayer Houses, (vi) Welfare Rights and Immigration work, (vii) Educational work - the library, visiting schools and in service counsel for teachers and student teachers and (viii) Project work - the Handsworth Festival and Play-Schemes and Adult Literacy Work.' Nature of support: The Trust provided small grants to underwrite the cost of a race relations and legislation conference and to support the publication of proceedings arising from the conference. The Trust agreed to raise the annual grant to AFFOR from £3,000 to £5,000 for the last two years of a five-year grant scheme. Funds were also provided to support the cost of staff at the Birmingham Interpreting and Translating Service (BITS). The Fund provided a number of small grants to support AFFOR research and publications. Minutes: B&GSCT 4222, B&GSCT 4303, B&GSCT 4460, B&GSCT 4458, B&GSCT 4567, B&GSCT 4585, BCF 1575, BCF 1626, BCF 1627, BCF 1670, BCF 1696, ST 28/77. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File numbered '3/4'. |