| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Black Women's Rape Action Project (BWRAP). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: BWRAP is an unincorporated voluntary organisation established to, 1) provide counselling, advice and support services to black, immigrant and refugee women and girls from different ethnic backgrounds who have faced rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and are facing deportation when they leave violent marriages, sexual harassment, racist sexual assault or rape and sexual abuse from people in authority, 2) raise awareness around the rape of black women and girls from different ethnic backgrounds, and, 3) document their experiences and outcomes. BWRAP was set up in 1993 in London. Nature of support: In 1997 three annual grants of £22,000 were approved by the Trust to BWRAP. Minutes: BCT 443. Notes: File organised roughly from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |