| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, agendas, minutes, reports, accounts, newspaper cuttings and funding requests relating to NACRO West Midlands organisations. 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. In 1978 a NACRO Development Officer was appointed to carry out research into ex-offender accommodation in the West Midlands. This research generated by this post was used to inform NACRO's regional West Midlands Accommodation Consultative Group (WMACG). The Birmingham Standing Conference for the Single Homeless (BSCSH) was established to coordinate and make strategic proposals on homeless matters across organisations in Birmingham. Nature of support: On the advice of Southfield Trustees the Trust approved a grant to cover the salary of the NACRO Development Officer in 1978. This grant was continued up to the calendar year 1983. Minutes: B&GSCT 5272. Notes: File organised by date from newest to oldest. File labelled '5/7/2'. |