| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews and funding requests relating to the Runnymede Trust (RT), London. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: The Runnymede Trust was established in 1968 and became a registered charity that same year. Its founders, Anthony Lester and Jim Rose, set up the Trust as an independent think-tank on race equality. The Trust aims to publically promote by teaching, lecturing or otherwise 1) studies in political, economic, social and natural sciences, the humanities and other subjects or disciplines suitable for education, and 2) to study and disseminate knowledge of problems of, and connected with, ethnic, religious, racial, national or other similar groups in England or elsewhere and their effect upon their environment. The Runnymede Trust has carried out a number of projects relating to Birmingham, specifically Handsworth. Nature of support: In 2001 the Trust approved a grant of £7,000 in 2001/2002 and £20,000 for 2002/2003 towards the salaries and running costs necessary to produce a handbook on incorporating racial equality across the national curriculum. Minutes: BCT 1050. Notes: File organised roughly from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |