| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overview, newsletters, reports and funding requests relating to NACRO (National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders). 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 1990 the Trust approved three annual grants of £20,000 to NACRO to establish an International Crime and Social Policy Centre (ICSPC) in Birmingham. Minutes: B&GSCT 7284. Notes: Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '5/8/1'. |