| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, newspaper cuttings, newsletters, accounts, reports, minutes, copies of published material, funding requests and agendas relating to the Centre for Black and White Christian Partnership (CBWCP). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: The CBWCP has its origins in the Project on Partnership Between Black and White, which aims to encourage inter-church relations, mutual trust, the sharing of resources and the building up of competent leadership in partnership between black and white Christians. The Centre also acts to serve as a resource centre where white led and black led churches can find information about one another's life, worship and traditions. It further serves to provide advice and encouragement churches, church councils and community workers in areas with significant numbers of African and West Indian churches. The Centre is sponsored jointly by the British Council of Christian Churches, Selly Oak Colleges and the University of Birmingham where it provides academic and pastoral training for a certificate in theology. Nature of support: The Fund provided a number of small grants to support Centre staff though the Trust later became the channel for these grants. The Trust provided a series of gradually reducing grants from £10,000 for the 1984/1985 academic year to £3,000 for the 1986/1987 academic year. Minutes: B&GSCT 5853, B&GSCT 5857, BCF 2278, BCF 2230, BCF 2368, BCF 2372, BCF 2377, BCF 2386. Notes: Files organised by date from newest to oldest and labelled 'a' and 'b'. File numbered '3/7/1'. |