| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, copies of published material, agendas, newspaper cuttings and funding requests relating to various probation projects in the West Midlands. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Paul S. Cadbury Trust, Southfield Trust. Applicant overview: This file contains a number of small to medium scale grant applications. The Abullam Housing Association (AHA) that works closely with Handsworth probation staff to provide accommodation to ex-offenders and those on probation. The Northern Ireland Probation Trust (NIPT) was created in 1979 along the lines of the Queensway Trust with the aim of providing small grants to offenders and their families in Belfast. The Handsworth Project (THP) launched a scheme in 1979 to allow young people between the ages of 16 and 20 from Handsworth to visit Jamaica as part of an educational group. The QT registered as a charity in 1976. The QT is a Midlands based charity that aims to relieve social deprivation among persons who may be referred to the probation and after-care services. The QT maintains a cottage for probation staff and clients, a transport section, a community action group, a small grants scheme plus other projects. Nature of support: In 1978 the Fund made a small travel grant to allow a Probation Officer from Leicester as part of an exchange project in Minnesota. The Southfield Trust recommended grants delivered through the QT for the purpose of allowing a probation officer to be seconded to divorce court work and to fund the West Midlands Probation Service. These grants were paid by the Trust. In 1978 on the recommendation of Southfield Trustees a grant of £1,000 was made to the Inner London Probation Service Motor Project to train young people as auto mechanics. Trustees felt a similar scheme could also be developed for Birmingham. In 1979 the Trust made a grant of £3,000 towards the travel costs associated with the THP Jamaica scheme. That same year a single £1,000 grant was made to NIPT. The Paul S. Cadbury Trust made a single grant of £500 for the AHA, Handsworth to allow for the purchase of furniture and fittings at an emergency accommodation centre. A number of other small travel grants were also made through the Trust and Fund. Minutes: B&GSCT 4685, B&GSCT 4753, B&GSCT 4808, B&GSCT 4889, BCF 1729, PSCT 128, ST 18/78, ST 27/78, ST 14/79. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '5/26'. |