| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, flowchart, reports, leaflets, newspaper cuttings and funding requests relating to the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) Birmingham and West Midlands projects including Handsworth Alternative Scheme (CHAS). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Southfield Trust. Applicant overview: NACRO traces its origins to the Central Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society established in 1924. It was later named the National Association of Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies, and then, in 1966, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. The current working name is simply, NACRO. NACRO was registered as a charity in 1964 and defines its aims as follows: 1) the care, resettlement and rehabilitation of offenders, and those at risk of offending, their families and dependents, 2) to further promote the study of and research into all aspects and methods of the prevention of crime, social exclusion, delinquency, and to make this information available, 3) to provide, promote, support or organise the recruitment and training of any offender, and those at risk of offending, and to assist them in finding employment and accommodation and to rehabilitate themselves, and 4) to promote, support or carry on either alone or in co-operation with any other body authority or person any project or scheme in connection with any methods of the prevention of crime and social exclusion and to provide money for such purposes whether by loan or otherwise. CHAS was established in 1980 as a pilot project to work jointly with Probation Officers in the Aston, Handsworth and Lozells areas of Birmingham. The aim of the scheme is to assist Birmingham Law Courts in providing community based alternatives for young black offenders between the ages of 16 and 25 who are at risk of attracting custodial sentences. Handprint is a NACRO scheme aimed at producing basic reading material in a form that attracts the interest of young readers. Nature of support: In 1984 on the recommendation of Southfield Trustees the Trust agreed to underwrite £7,000 for the 1984 to 1985 period. In 1984 a grant of £4,353 was made to Handprint. Minutes: B&GSCT 5894, B&GSCT 6108, ST 19/84, ST 48/84. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '5/7/1'. |