| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, reports, minutes, accounts, award summaries and funding requests relating to the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) Education Award Scheme. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Southfield Trust. Applicant overview: NACRO traces its origins to The Central Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society established in 1924. It was later named the National Association of Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies, and then, in 1966, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. The current working name is simply, NACRO. NACRO was registered as a charity in 1964 and defines its aims as follows: 1) the care, resettlement and rehabilitation of offenders, and those at risk of offending, their families and dependents, 2) to further promote the study of and research into all aspects and methods of the prevention of crime, social exclusion, delinquency, and to make this information available, 3) to provide, promote, support or organise the recruitment and training of any offender, and those at risk of offending, and to assist them in finding employment and accommodation and to rehabilitate themselves, and 4) to promote, support or carry on either alone or in co-operation with any other body authority or person any project or scheme in connection with any methods of the prevention of crime and social exclusion and to provide money for such purposes whether by loan or otherwise. The NACRO Education Award Scheme aims to provide suitable ex-offenders with the means to pursue further education. Nature of support: Support for the education scheme began in 1978 with the Cadbury Trusts as the sole funder. A total of £7,500 was paid over three years. In 1981 the Southfield Trust recommended a £5,000 grant for the NACRO education bursary to be paid out over a further three years. In 1984 a gradual three-year draw down in support from £5,000 per annum to £3,000 per annum was agreed by the Trust. Minutes: B&GSCT 5287, B&GSCT 5922, ST 3/81, ST 3/84. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File labelled '5/8/3'. |