| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, payments summary, accounts, agendas, copies of published material and funding requests relating to All Faiths for One Race (AFFOR). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: AFFOR is a Birmingham based organisation involved in anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigns that was founded in 1970. AFFOR also carries out research, publishing and educational activities. A report by Ultan Russell of the Community and Race Relations Unit of the British Council of Churches described AFFOR's work in 1977 as: '(i) Pressurizing the local authority on its dispersing black families policy, (ii) Assisting in the establishment of the Handsworth Law Centre, (iii) BIT which gives interpreting, translating and duplicating facilities to groups who would not otherwise have access to it, (iv) Work regarding racist movements, (v) Pressurizing the local authority on questions of Muslim Prayer Houses, (vi) Welfare Rights and Immigration work, (vii) Educational work - the library, visiting schools and in service counsel for teachers and student teachers and (viii) Project work - the Handsworth Festival and Play-Schemes and Adult Literacy Work.' Nature of support: In 1985 the Trust approved three grants beginning at £8,000 and decreasing to £6,000 and then £4,000 for 1987 to 1989. In 1987 the Trust approved a grant of £750 towards the cost of a travelling Anne Frank exhibition and education project from Holland through AFFOR. Minutes: B&GSCT 6608, B&GSCT 6671. Notes: Includes minutes of the Birmingham Interpreting and Translating (BITS) Steering Committee. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '3/4'. |