| Description | Grant file containing reports, newsletters and agenda relating to National Council for Voluntary Service (NCVO) Urban Unit Black Caucus Conference. Funding source(s): n/a. Applicant overview: NCVO began in 1919 as the National Council of Social Services, following a legacy from Edward Vivian Birchall who died of wounds in France during World War I. Since this time NCVO continues to support the sector and speak to government against an ever-changing social background. Many now well-established voluntary organisations started out as projects within NCVO, including Age Concern, Citizens Advice Bureaux and Community Matters. During the early 1980s NCVO expanded its work on the UK's multi-racial society and its positive implications for society. The National Black Caucus is a national network of black organisations and individuals, the main role of which is to collate and disseminate information of relevance to black communities and to devise strategies for the co-ordination and implementation of all policies and issues pertinent to the lives of black peoples. The Black Caucus Conference is held annually to examine racism and urban policy and to develop strategies that focus, confront and minimise racism. Nature of support: No grant was made. Minutes: No minutes cited. Notes: Grant information is contained elsewhere in this sequence. File organised by date from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |