| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, annual reports, newspaper cuttings, reports, leaflets and funding requests relating to the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) Minimum Standards in Prisons survey. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury 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. Nature of support: In 1987 the Trust approved an immediate grant of £3,500 consultancy work following the Minimum Standards in Prison survey carried out by NACRO. A further total of up to £1,500 was set aside for publication costs. That same year a grant of £500 was also made to the education activities at Long Lartin Prison in Worcestershire. Minutes: B&GSCT 6676, B&GSCT 6816. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File numbered '5/16/1'. |