| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, newsletters, project proposals and funding requests relating to the National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The NAAR was established in 1994 on the initiative of black community organisations based in Tower Hamlets, following the community-led campaign against the election of a BNP councillor in a by-election in Millwall. The wide coalition formed around this issue was established in the NAAR as an umbrella of affiliates and individual members to initiate campaigns, set agendas and raise awareness on the whole range of anti-racist issues affecting British society. Nature of support: In 1999 the Trust agreed to three annual grants of £10,000 towards NAAR core costs. Minutes: BCT 722. Notes: File organised roughly from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |