| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, funding applications, reports, newspaper cuttings, press release, newsletters, agendas, copies of printed material and funding requests relating to the Runnymede Trust and its projects. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. 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 publicly 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 1970 the Trust approved a series of grants to support a research project entitled 'Social Patterns in Birmingham'. A grant of £2,200 was made through the Runnymede Trust for the continued employment of a project worker based in Handsworth. In 1976 a grant of £5,000 was allocated to support either the publication of a Runnymede report on citizenship or a discussion paper on urban deprivation. In 1977 the Trust agreed to support the national level work of the Runnymede Trust through two annual £5,000 grants towards administrative and staffing expenses for 1978 and 1979. This grant was extended to cover 1980 and 1981 at a Trust meeting held in 1979. The 1981 total was later supplemented by an additional £2,000. In 1981 annual grants were increased to £7,500 for 1982, 1983 and 1984. Minutes: B&GSCT 3254, B&SGCT 3289, B&GSCT 3352, B&GSCT 4175, B&GSCT 4549, B&GSCT 4963, B&GSCT 5224, B&GSCT 5377. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '3/18'. |