| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, reports, leaflets, accounts, copies of published material, project proposal and funding requests relating to the Unemployment Unit. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: The Unit was launched in 1981 as an independent research and campaigning organisation. Its aim was to promote an awareness amongst the public, in Parliament, and the media, of problems facing the unemployed, in particular the long term and recurrently out of work. These aims were revised in 1991 to, 1) establish a clear public understanding of the real scale and costs of unemployment, 2) gain public recognition of the problems facing the unemployed and their families, 3) promote the development of longer term, stable structures, for the creation and implementation of special employment training measures, 4) promote the equal rights and access of all those individuals wishing to participate in the labour market, and to argue for specific mechanisms and support measures which would make access possible, and 5) promote the right of all citizens who wish to be economically active to be able to make job choices and follow career paths which enable them to realise their full potential and participate in education, training and employment at appropriate points in their lives. Nature of support: In 1993 the Fund approved three annual grants of £10,000 per annum to the Unemployment Unit. Minutes: BCF 3331. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'DC/U/3'. |