| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, payments summary, leaflets, copies of newspaper cuttings, reports, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Runnymede Trust. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The Runnymede Trust was established in 1968 and became a registered charity that same year. Its founders, Anthony Lester and Jim Rose, set up the Trust as an independent think-tank on race equality. The Trust aims to publicly promote by teaching, lecturing or otherwise 1) studies in political, economic, social and natural sciences, the humanities and other subjects or disciplines suitable for education, and 2) to study and disseminate knowledge of problems of, and connected with, ethnic, religious, racial, national or other similar groups in England or elsewhere and their effect upon their environment. The Runnymede Trust has carried out a number of projects relating to Birmingham, specifically Handsworth. Nature of support: In 1985 the Trust approved three annual grants of £10,000 per annum to the Runnymede Trust. In 1987 a single grant of £5,000 was made pending a review of further support. A further grant of £10,000 was approved in 1988. In 1989 the Trust approved grants of £15,000 per annum for three years. Minutes: B&GSCT 6133, B&GSCT 6851, B&GSCT 6890, B&GSCT 7136. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '3/18'. |