| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, newspaper cuttings, reports, copies of published material, leaflets, agendas and funding requests relating to the Scarman Report and other police related subjects. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Southfield Trust. Applicant overview: This file consists of a number of small grant applications made by the police, primarily in Handsworth. Nature of support: In 1978 the Fund paid a grant for £200 originally approved by the Trust to purchase sports equipment for the non-charitable Handsworth Sports and Recreation Club. The Fund also approved a grant of £150 for a camping trip organised by Handsworth police for black families to the Lake District. A Household Survey of the Experience of Crime in Aston by an Oxford University Department of Geography research student was allocated a grant of up to £750. Minutes: B&GSCT 4917, BCF 1757, BCF 1758, ST 43/80. Notes: The Scarman Report was commissioned in 1981 following the Brixton Riots. Lord Scarman, appointed to lead the commission, found that a complex combination of social, political and economic factors led to the riots. File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '5/18/1'. |