| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, copies of published material, newsletters, reports, accounts and funding requests relating to the Runnymede Trust (RT). 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 1991 the Trust agreed to two grants of £5,000 each to the former director of the RT towards salary costs as resident theologian at St Boltoph, Aldgate. In 1992 the Trust agreed to make three annual grants of £10,000 per annum to the RT. Minutes: B&GSCT 7402, B&GSCT 7551. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'R/2'. |