| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, accounts, newsletters, copies of published material and funding requests relating to the Handsworth Single Homeless Action Group (HSHAG). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The HSHAG was formed to press for immediate and effective action in the face of a housing crisis among young single homeless and potentially homeless people in Handsworth. HSHAG was founded in May 1977. The primary beneficiaries of HSHAG activities are single persons under the age of twenty-five who would not otherwise have recourse to housing through the Housing Department. HSHAG became a registered housing association in 1986. Nature of support: In 1989 the Trust approved £6,000 towards salary costs at HSHAG and £2,300 toward rent. Minutes: B&GSCT 7051. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File labelled '7/20'. |