| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, copies of published material, newsletters, reports and funding requests relating to the Runnymede Trust (RT). 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 1993 grants to the RT were extended for two years at £10,000 per annum. Minutes: B&GSCT 7584. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'R/2'. |