| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, payments summary, booklets, leaflets, newspaper cuttings, newsletters, project proposals and funding requests relating to PROP (Preservation for the Rights of Prisoners). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd., Southfield Trust. Applicant overview: PROP was launched on 11 May 1972 to 'preserve, protect and to extend the rights of prisoners and ex-prisoners and to assist in their rehabilitation and re-integration into society, so as to bring about a reduction in crime'. PROP was established by a group of prisoners and ex-prisoners. Nature of support: In 1984 the Fund approved a single grant of £4,000 to PROP. A further £5,000 was approved in 1985. In 1986 a further single annual grant of £5,000 was approved followed by three further annual grants of the same total. In 1989 annual grants were extended for three years at £6,000 per annum. Minutes: BCF 2374, BCF 2477, BCF 2660, BCF 2791, BCF 3033, ST 52/84. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '5/6/2'. |