| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overview, annual reports, newspaper cuttings, declaration of trust, project proposals and funding requests relating to All Faiths for One Race (AFFOR) and Birmingham Interpreting and Translation (BIT). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury 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: No grants were made. Minutes: No minutes cited. Notes: Grant information and Cadbury Trusts minutes can be found elsewhere in this sequence. File organised by date from newest to oldest. File numbered '3/4'. |