| Description | This file consists largely of correspondence relating to the Indian Workers Association's application to the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust for funding to set up a social and welfare centre, and to the Association's purchase of property for the welfare centre. There is also material documenting members contributions towards the establishment of the centre.
Papers include:
/1 typescript list of charitable trusts, compiled by the Birmingham Community Relations Committee, and presumably used by the Indian Workers Association in applying for funding
/2 typescript application for funding and assistance for permanent premises to enable the Indian Workers Association to provide a social and welfare service to the community, giving details about some of the problems faced by the Indian community and explaining the ways in which a welfare centre would solve them. The application is clipped to an acknowledgements slip to Jagmohan Joshi from Anthony Wilson, representing the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, undated
/3-/7correspondence relating to a survey carried out on premises at 346 Soho Road, Handsworth by Chesshire Gibson for the Indian Workers Association October-November 1977
/8 letter from Anthony Wilson, Secretary of the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust to Jagmohan Joshi discussing the possibility of the Trust granting funds to the Indian Workers Association towards the purchase of premises for a welfare centre and explaining the conditions that the Trust might want to impose on the use of the grant, November 1977
/9 letter from Anthony Wilson, Secretary of the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust to Jagmohan Joshi confirming the amount the Trust have granted towards the purchase of 346 Soho Road, Handsworth for the welfare centre, December 1977
/10-/13 correspondence between Anthony E. Wilson, Secretary of the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, to J. Whiting Smith, Wragge & Co solicitors, Birmingham, concerning the conveyancing and purchase of 346 Soho Road, Handsworth by the Indian Workers Association, 1977-1978
/14-/19 receipts for contributions from Indian Workers Association members towards the welfare centre, including a letter to Joshi from G. Appa of the London branch which also discusses Central Committee resolutions, mentions the Grunwick strike and the need to make contacts with the women workers and ,asks Joshi to remind branches of the resolution on Gujaratis, stating that speeches should be in Hindi or another language that Gujaratis can understand, June 1978
/20 copy letter from the Charity Commission relating to the bid for the Harmony trust to be considered a charity, July 1978. This letter does not appear to be related to funding for the Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Centre.
/21 copy of the policy of the Commission for Racial Equality on Grant-Aid for projects, 1978-1979
/22-/26 papers relating to the Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Centre constitution, including correspondence between Anthony Wilson of the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust and J. Whiting Smith of Wragge & Co solicitors, Birmingham concerning the need for the trustees of the Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Centre to approve a constitution. There is also a copy of the constitution of the Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Trust (Birmingham) and a copy of a constitution for an Indian Workers' Welfare Centre, adopted in September 1967. This would seem to be a precursor to the Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Centre, which may not have had its own premises, but was obviously constituted to carry out the welfare activities that the Indian Workers Association already undertook. |