| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, newspaper cuttings, project proposal, accounts, agendas and funding requests relating to various race relations projects in the West Midlands. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: This file contains a number of applications under the race relations portfolio. The George 90 Playbus is a project organised by the Lozells Social Development Centre Ltd. and partly funded by the Inner City Partnership Scheme to provide a movable playgroup for children under five in Handsworth, Lozells and Hockley. The project initially employs two full-time worker/drivers. Link House in Bearwood, Birmingham was established by a group of Asian men prominent in Sikh and Hindu temples with the cooperation of the Birmingham Social Services Department to provide a bridge between parents and daughters who rebel against a traditional upbringing. The source of tension may be boyfriends or arranged marriages. This work is very similar to that carried out by the Asian Resource Centre, though the clientele are more reflective of the professional and religious establishment. In 1981 the leader of the Yemeni community in Birmingham suggested that a Yemeni Centre be established to provide advice and support to the three hundred plus, relatively poor Yemeni families in the city. Nature of support: In 1981 the Trust approved a single grant of £500 to employ a third paid worker on the George 90 Playbus project who speaks Asian languages. That same year a grant of £100 was provided to Link House to equip recreational facilities at its advice centre. The Trust also approved a grant of £400 towards repairs on the Yemeni Centre located on the Pershore Road near the Tally Ho! police training centre. A number of other small grants are also included in this file. Minutes: B&GSCT 5283, B&GSCT 5292, B&GSCT 5304, B&GSCT 5373, B&GSCT 5595, B&GSCT 5599, B&GSCT 5630, BCF 2208, BCF 2261. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '3/15'. |