Newsletter

• Human Rights andSocial Justice Centre

• Local communitiescreating change

• New Chair of theT2A Alliance

• House guests atKean House

• Criminal Justice

• Migration and Europe

• Povey and Inclusion

The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an

independent, charitable

foundation, committed to

suppoing vulnerable and

marginalised people in society.

The Trust provides grants to

grassroots voluntary and

community groups working in

deprived communities in the

UK, with a focus on the West

Midlands. It also works with

researchers, think tanks and

government, oen in

panership with other grant-

makers, seeking to overcome

the structural barriers to a more

just and equal society.

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Arriving at Barrow Cadbury in2009 my ‘to do’ list included:creating a strategic alliancewith trustees, building a highfunctioning staff team,

moving the Trust into social investments,improving social impact reporting andfurther integrating social justice andsustainable development principles acrossour work. So in approaching this article, I set about identifying writers who hadhelped me to think about thosechallenges and influenced how I tackledthem. Within the foundation community:Diana Leat, Julia Unwin, Avila Kilmurray,David Carrington. From further afield: JedEmerson, Anna Coote, Jon Cracknell, BenCairns, Barry Knight. But I could multiplythis list tenfold and still not exhaust thearticles or reports which have subtly andvirally altered how I see things andconsequently how I think and what I do.

As that approach did not work, I lookedback further to think: what was thereading that formed me and made mewho I am? Why am I doing the job I amdoing and how is the Barrow CadburyTrust a ‘fit’ with who I am?

The greatest formative influence of mychildhood reading would have to be theteachings of Jesus in the New Testament.I was raised by atheists and am an atheistmyself but attended a Church of Englandprimary school and was an active member

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Even though the summer may have arrived late and departed early, wethought it apposite to choose some holiday reads. As Chief ExecutiveSara Llewellin is abroad as we go to press, in lieu of her usual update is

this reflection, reproduced from the latest Philanthropy UK newsletter, inwhich Sara considers some of the texts which have informed her ethics andwhich led her to the Barrow Cadbury Trust.

of a non-conformist church throughoutmy childhood and early teenage years. I was one of those children who couldsing well, speak confidently and learnlines. So there was very little of the gospelstory I wasn’t called upon to act, recite,read or sing at one time or another. I loved it too. Loved the stories, loved thesongs, loved the morals. Jesus is still oneof my heroes: non-violent, humane, non-misogynist, tolerant, forgiving and deep.

A few highlights from gospel readings,which play out in how I see the world andmy aspirations for it include the parable ofthe Good Samaritan, who did not walk byon the other side of the road but stoppedto assist someone in trouble. To this day,this one pops into my mind when it isinconvenient to find change for the BigIssue seller and I walk past not catchinghis eye. Jesus drove the money changersout in the Cleansing of the Temple and inother parts of his ministry made it clearthat material greed is a distraction from,not the route to, a good life. When hecame upon the Woman Accused ofAdultery and facing punishment bystoning, he stepped in: “Let he who iswithout sin cast the first stone” he toldthe crowd and, when they had dispersed,told the woman “Go, and sin no more.”Taking direct action to prevent violenceagainst women whilst also advocatingpersonal responsibility - my kind of guy. >>

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As a teenager I hadintellectual aspirationsand read constantly inthe pursuit of ‘what tothink’, a crucial part ofthe teenager’s quest todefine ‘who am I?’.Some of what I read

was predictable: Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot,Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy (all inEnglish), AndréGide, Albert Camus,Simone De Beauvoir (also in English!).But I stumbled upon others through myearly affinity with social movements,such as the civil rights movement in theUSA, early gay liberation and the 1970’swave of feminism. Texts which shapedmy view of the world included FranzFanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, ananalysis of the psychopathology ofcolonialism and its psychological impacton those subjugated by it. Togetherwith Walter Rodney’s How EuropeUnder-developed Africa (the title says it all)

this text, ambitious for a 17-year-old,was the beginning of my interest in theinterplay between the psychologicaland the material, the psyche and thepolitical realities of oppression.

Alongside this, ranked equally, were the1970’s blockbuster new feminist theorytexts: Juliet’s Mitchell’s Women’s Estate,Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics and severalothers. They offered a structural ratherthan individual framework forunderstanding patriarchy and, crucially,advocated a new and feminised way ofpursing political consciousness and‘doing’ politics. The slogan ‘thepersonal is political’ become integral tomy way both of seeing and of being inthe world.

I studied literature and education as anundergraduate and was influenced byPaulo Friere, Wilhelm Reich and BertoltBrecht among others. A quote fromFriere’s The Pedagogy of the Oppressed,

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Joyce Moseley OBE has become the new Chair of the Transition to AdulthoodAlliance, which is convened by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. On becomingChair, Joyce said:

“I think I let out a little yelp of delight when I opened [Barrow Cadbury TrustCEO] Sara Llewellin’s email asking if I would consider becoming the Chair of theT2A Alliance. It took me only moments to know that I would love to get backinvolved with T2A and the work it is doing to promote the needs of youngadults. And what a privilege to be asked to take over from Anne Owers!

“As Chief Executive at Catch22, I became involved with the development of T2Aright at the beginning and I’m pleased the organisation continues to play a strong role. The T2A focus bringstogether two of my passions – youth offending and those neglected transitional years. What I admire about theAlliance work is the combination of practice, policy and research and the long term commitment to bringingabout change.

“Being a part of such a good programme of work and contributing my knowledge and experience is an honour. I look forward to meeting up again with Alliance members and working with you all in the future.”

Joyce is a non executive director of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation and was, until July 2011, theChief Executive of Catch22. She was also a member of the Youth Justice Board for six years, and received an OBEin 2007 for services to youth justice.

Joyce takes over from Dame Anne Owers, who was Chair of the Alliance from 2011-12 until her appointment asChair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. On behalf of the Alliance, the Trust extends very warmthanks to Anne for her valuable contribution and looks forward to working with her in the future.

published in 1968, was on our kitchenwall through many years of activism:“Washing one’s hands of the conflictbetween the powerful and thepowerless means to side with thepowerful, not to be neutral”.

So what about the influence on mycurrent work? My values and worldview are closely aligned with that ofQuakers, the Cadburys and thereforethe Trust. We seek structural notpalliative solutions to inequalities andinjustices. We reflect the values andconcerns of our founders in promotinggender justice, racial justice, economicjustice and criminal justice. We supportcampaigners and community activistsand seek to strengthen their hands andtheir voices. We name racism andmisogyny where we find it. And we tryto mirror our values in how we conductour business. The personal is stillpolitical. With a small p.”

Sara Llewellin

New Chair of the T2A Alliance ”

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The Trust is investing in a new Centre which will providea base for organisations working to promote humanrights and achieve greater social justice. With partner

investors the Ethical Property Company, Trust for London, theLankellyChase Foundation, the Joseph Rowntree CharitableTrust and Bridges Ventures, a building in Vauxhall has beenbought and architects appointed. When it is completed, thecentre will provide office accommodation for some 20-30organisations, meetings rooms, a cafe, conference centre andexhibition/performance space. The building will be built tohigh environmental standards. This will include theincorporation of green space within the building, low energyuse and other environmental benefits.

The Centre is intended both to provide high qualityaccommodation at a competitive price, and to provide theTrust and other investors with an income. The money theTrust is investing in the centre comes from its endowment (itscapital), not its grants budget. The investment is part of upto 5% of our endowment that the Trustees have decidedshould be moved away from standard stock marketinvestments and into a growing portfolioof social investments – investments thatprovide a social benefit as well as afinancial return.

It therefore stands alongside the Trust’sother social investments: thePeterborough Social Impact Bond (whichfunds support for short-stay prisonersleaving Peterborough jail), Ethex (a digitalplatform on which investors can buy andsell shares in small ethical companies)and Bristol Together (a new organisationthat will buy houses in need ofrenovation, train and employ ex-offenders, homeless people and others inneed to renovate them and sell theimproved buildings thus creating asustainable income stream to buy moreproperties).

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The vision of the new Centre is that it will not only provide agood standard of accommodation, but that the organisationit houses will benefit from sharing the space and that thebuilding will increasingly be seen as a focus for social justicework in London and the UK. Since the building is locatednear Vauxhall station, in an area close to high densityhousing, we also want it to be a place which local people willvisit and in which they feel welcome. So one of the first tasksbeing undertaken is consultation with local neighbours in thesurrounding estates, as well as with the many voluntarysector organisations that are based in that area of London sowe can see how the Centre will add to the work they do, notcompete with it.

The building is due to open in 2013. It will be managed bythe Ethical Property Company (which is also an investor in thebuilding), alongside their portfolio of other shared officespace. For more details, or if you are interested in tenancy ofthe building, visit www.ethicalproperty.co.uk

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The Trust is funding a cluster of research projectsaimed at identifying factors that help communitiesbe “resilient” and take more control. By “resilient”

we mean able to withstand setbacks such as risingunemployment rates, loss of local amenities, or a series ofclosures of local employers. The term is often used whendescribing communities’ response to natural disasters – aresilient community is commonly considered to be onewhere people rally round after a single disaster such as aflood, and rebuild what has been lost. While one-offdisasters can be terrible for communities, and blight lives,so can the type of repeated set-backs that communitiesin Birmingham and elsewhere are experiencing in thecurrent difficult economic climate.

Questions to address include what is it that makes somelocal communities better able to cope than others, andhow can local people take more control of theirsituation? By funding a series of research studies, wehope to shed light on the characteristics in communitiesthat can increase their resilience and how theGovernment’s localism agenda can be used to strengthenlocal communities.

The Young Foundation has been comparing factorsrelating to community resilience in an inner and outerward in Birmingham. Their key finding is that it isconnections between communities and their surroundingareas – not only access to jobs, but, crucially, access todecision-makers, that is critical to development. Thuswhile communities may have plenty of “social capital”, in that local people are supportive and there are goodnetworks between them, there is little “political capital”

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– in other words, the voices of less well connectedcommunities are not heard in local or nationalgovernment circles and thus the concerns and challengesof those communities are less likely to be addressed.

The Chamberlain Forum, the Birmingham “Think-and-Do Tank”, is looking at five examples of community-ledchange. These include development of TimeBanking,where the Forum has a vision of a Birmingham-wide TimeEconomy; the implementation of Community First, thenew community-led Government funding stream whichputs local people in charge of funding decisions;Community Networks; and Neighbourhood Planning.They are also having a fresh look at the concept of“Community Hubs”. This term has in the past been usedto refer to community centres or other multi-usebuildings which act as a focal point for local people. TheChamberlain Forum is looking at how, in the age of socialmedia and digital technology, the structures (virtual orreal) around which communities gather have changed.

The Trust is also funding projects that make use of formalmechanisms for community-led change such as theLocalism Bill. Urban Forum, the network of localcommunity organisations, has been working for a year inDudley looking at how the rights in the Localism Billcould be used by local people. The project culminated ina joint action plan agreed by the Local Authority andDudley Community Partnership. We will be going backto them in six months to find out how the plans haveprogressed. The New Economics Foundation (nef) hasbeen doing a two-centre study, funded by the Trust, theCity Bridge Trust and the LankellyChase Foundation, thatwill monitor people’s experience of cuts in publicspending and track their plans for a local 'Big Society’.

Finally in this cluster of research projects, we have fundeda couple of projects looking at local economics. The Centre for Local Economic Strategy has beenlooking at how the interaction between the community,statutory and commercial sectors is playing out in Walsall,and what actions could be taken to strengthen localeconomic resilience, while Localise, the Birminghamthink-tank, is researching local supply chains to see howlocal enterprises can be better linked in to big business.

Taken together, these studies will provide a substantialbody of evidence about actions local people, communityorganisations, statutory bodies and business can taketogether to improve lives. The evidence is being fed intothe Bishop of Birmingham’s Social Inclusion Process andwe plan to hold a conference in the autumn to discussthe findings.

immigration, in the interests of creating a welcoming societywhich is fair to both citizens and migrants.

British Future’s first publications have included “Hopes andFears”, a State of the Nation report, published in January2012, in association with The Observer newspaper, whichexamined sources of optimism and pessimism aboutcontemporary society, and how we believe Britain haschanged for better and worse over the last six decades; and“This Sceptred Isle”, a study of English, Scottish and Welshidentities, and sources of pride, exploring how far peoplebelieve that it is civic contribution, parentage or ethnicity thatmatters to belonging in our societies today.

The British Future website, at www.britishfuture.org,contains a range of personal video accounts of people’sindividual journeys and accounts of their own sense ofidentity, as well as a range of online resources onpublications, events and news events, and the dotdotdotblog, which engages with topical events and discussion ofthese issues.

The staff team, led by Sunder Katwala as director, includesRachael Jolley, director of communications and editorialdirector; Matthew Rhodes, director of strategy andrelationships; and Angie Starn, Office Manager and Events.Please do get in touch with the team at info@britishfuture.orgif you would like to be kept informed of activities and events.You can follow news, views and activities on the@britishfuture twitter account.

British Future’s latest report, This Sceptred Isle: Pride notprejudice across the nations of Britain, was published in April2012. It analyses the findings of its recent polling on British,English, Scottish and Welsh identities. According to BritishFuture’s Director, Sunder Katwala, the poll shows that mostpeople across the nations of Britain have a “shared civicidentity.” However, he warns of a risk of “going backwards”if mainstream voices do not debate English identity andinstead leave it “too open to anextremist fringe”.

British Future also recentlyorganised ‘The Great BritishBreakfast’, an event with MarkEaston, BBC News Home Editorand author of Britain etc. ThisDragons’-Den style debatebrought together a cross-section of Londoners todiscuss developments thathave shaped and influencedmodern British society.

Two new organisationshave moved into theTrust’s premises. Many of

you will have visited ourmodern offices in CentralLondon, convenient fortransport links and on the

doorstep of Westminster and Whitehall. We are veryconscious of this privilege and hence are now sharing it withothers. Two new organisations are now sharing our officespace, which we are giving as ‘gifts in kind’. British Futureand the Centre for Justice Innovation both work on issuesvery closely related to our programmes. Indeed, we had amajor hand in the establishment of British Future. This issueof our newsletter introduces its important work.

British Future is a new think-tank, which launched inJanuary 2012, engaging with people’s hopes and fears aboutidentity and integration, migration and opportunity, so as tobuild confidence in a future that people want to share. BritishFuture will focus on reaching more sceptical audiences, whoare anxious about cultural identity and economic opportunityin Britain today, as well as those who already feel confidentabout our society, with the aim of bringing people togetherto identify workable solutions to the problems which oursociety faces.

British Future’s approach to these issues involves:

• Building a modern British identity which helps us to buildan inclusive citizenship, where we can all be confidentabout who we are, and which recognises the nationaland local identities we hold in Britain today too.

• Promoting integration in Britain, so that people from all backgrounds contribute fully to the society that wewant to share.

• Understanding that migration has long made a positivecontribution to British life, so we need to address itseconomic and social pressure, to manage it fairly foreveryone.

• Working for economic and social opportunity to beshared across our society – so that the chances in life of Britain’s next generation are not determined bywhere their parents came from, and so that nobody isleft behind.

The Barrow Cadbury Trust has supported the establishment ofBritish Future, along with other members of the ‘ChangingMinds’ group of trusts and foundations, seeking to support abetter informed and more balanced public debate about

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Criminal JusticeAims to suppo people who are within or at risk of entering thecriminal justice system, to improve their life chances with a focuson young adults.

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The Transition to Adulthood Alliance,convened by the Trust, has launched anew report, ‘Pathways from Crime,’which identifies ten points in thecriminal justice process where a morerigorous and effective approach foryoung adults and young people in thetransition to adulthood (16-24) can bedelivered.

The audience for this report is broad,but it should be of particular interest tocommissioners, practitioners and policy-makers who work to support thecriminal justice process.

It is hoped that professionals at all levelsand across multiple sectors will act onthis body of evidence to adapt andadopt the T2A pathway to ensure thatall areas deliver an effective approachfor young adults throughout thecriminal justice process.

The report was launched on 22 May inthe House of Commons. Speakersincluded Frances Done (Chair of theYouth Justice Board), Richard Bradshaw(Director of Offender Health at theDepartment of Health) and AndrewHillas (Pan-London lead for youngpeople, London Probation Trust). Paul Maynard MP hosted the event,which was attended by more than 90policy-makers, practitioners, T2Akeyworkers and some of the youngpeople themselves who had been partof the T2A pilot projects.

In the year ahead, the T2A Alliance willbe working with professionals,academics and the government todevelop and implement the report’srecommendations, and the Trust willseek to support work that supports theT2A approach.

The event also saw the launch of Catch22’s summative evaluation of the threeT2A pilot projects. The research tracked34 young people over a six monthperiod, measuring outcomes basedaround the offender pathways used bythe National Offender ManagementService, including reoffending,accommodation, employment, healthand families.

The results are very encouraging. Onlythree young people were reconvicted inthis time, while overall employmentrates trebled and NEET (not ineducation, employment or training)levels halved.

The Catch 22 evaluation is available todownload atwww.t2a.org.uk/publications

Sound it OutSound it Out inBirmingham havebeen awarded agrant to work with agroup of 15 young

men, age 17 – 19 and referred by thelocal Youth Offender Institute, providingpractical music based activities in orderto improve the young person'scommunication skills in conveying theirthoughts and feelings to their peers andadults. The young people will beexpected to participate in a range ofactivities on a one-to-one basis as wellas group sessions. The sessions will bestructured around mentoring andrehabilitation through music whilstdeveloping emotional literacy. It is led bya professional adult mentor withcriminal justice experience who willadvise, guide and assist the youngperson each week. The focus of thesessions will be on positive musicactivities through writing lyrics, ensuringthat the message it sends out is apositive one.

Engage Youth EmpowermentServices

The Trust hasawarded a grant toEngage YouthEmpowermentServices (EYES)

in Wolverhampton. The grant willsupport the delivery of its Real Talkprogramme, which confronts andchallenges the issues of peer pressure inrelation to joining gangs and concernsyoung people or community membersmay have in regards to streetaltercations.

Real Talk uses an approach that opensdialogue in a neutral and safe way,through a series of consultationworkshops where issues the youngpeople are experiencing are identified.

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This information is translated into apiece of specialised theatre andperformed after a few weeks in front ofthe young people initially. They are thenable to participate in the theatre pieceas it is going on and change outcomesto the issues being portrayed, allowingthem to observe a problem that they arestruggling with and help find solutionsto address them.

The piece is later performed to anaudience of lead practitioners (such aslocal police and social services) whohave daily engagement the lives of theyoung people.

Having watched the performance theycan begin to analyse and critiquedecisions and choices made bycharacters within the play. Through thisapproach, Local Authority services, thepolice and others are able to see theissues and explore solutions with theyoung people concerned.

Koestler Trust

A three year grant has been awarded tothe Koestler Trust, the prison artscharity, which has been awarding,exhibiting and selling artworks byoffenders, detainees and secure patientsfor over 49 years. The grant will supportthe creation of an annual 'BarrowCadbury Scholarship Award' for womenoffenders, the highest level of awardoffered by the Koestler Trust, aimed atits most talented entrants. Recipients ofthe award are supported to ensure thattheir talents continue to develop and tohelp them reach their full potential,both during their sentence and theirresettlement. Winners receive prizemoney and a year of mentoring by anarts’ professional trained through theKoestler Arts Mentoring Scheme, andtheir artwork is exhibited in a prestigiousUK exhibition held annually atSouthbank Centre.

Restorative Justice Council

To support the development of the T2AAlliance’s recommendations onrestorative justice, the Trust has awardeda grant to the Restorative JusticeCouncil (RJC) to build on the existingstrong evidence base for restorativejustice interventions and develop it forapplication for young adults in thecriminal justice process. This will bedone through advocating the use ofrestorative justice to politicians, partneragencies and the public; ensuring thegrowth in quantity and quality ofrestorative justice including when usedwith young people and young adults;producing a report on the use anddevelopment of restorative justice withyoung adults; and offering support toT2A Alliance members and pilot areaswith information and guidance.

The Institute for Criminal PolicyResearch

The Institute for Criminal PolicyResearch (ICPR), in partnership withthe Institute for Volunteering Research(IVR) are planning to undertake aresearch project on young ex-offendervolunteering. With a grant from theTrust, ICPR will first undertake a policyreview, which will encompass currentnational policies and policydevelopments that have a bearing onthe recruitment and retention of ex-offender volunteers and, more broadly,relevant policy developments in thespheres of offender resettlement,volunteering, the provision of servicesfor young people, community cohesion,and the Big Society. Additionally, ICPRwill review evaluations and otheravailable evidence from existingnational, regional or local initiativesaimed at promoting volunteeringamong ex-offenders.

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HMP Doncaster project manager, Brenda Fraser, receivesher Barrow Cadbury Trust sponsored Bulter Trust awardfrom The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.

Brenda is the inspiration and driving forcebehind Families First at HMP&YOIDoncaster. Families First aims to reducereoffending by helping prisoners tomaintain and develop relationships withtheir partners and children throughinitiatives, facilitated by fully trained staff,such as toddler mornings, family days and“Daddy Newborn”, in which fathers canspend time with their newborn child in aspecially designed room. None of this wouldhave happened without Brenda’s vision andrefusal to take “no” for an answer.

Finally...in a special meeting of theAssociation of CharitableFoundations’ Issue BasedNetwork on Penal Affairs,

the Trust hosted a presentation by Rt.Hon. Lord Keith Bradley in June, whospoke about the progress made sincehis report in 2009 for the Departmentof Health and Ministry of Justice oncriminal justice, mental health andlearning difficulties.

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Other newsSeveral BarrowCadbury Trust staffjoined Anna Southall

in a visit to HMP Doncaster in June, to seethe award winning project of the BCT-sponsored 2012 Butler Trust award. The prison is the first ‘payment by results’prison, and as well as a tour of the prison(run by Serco), Anna Southall opened theprison’s new (‘outside prison’) FamilyCentre.

Transatlantic Council onMigration repo on UKintegration policy and practice

On 1 May, the Trust co-hosted an event with the MigrationPolicy Institute’s Transatlantic Council on Migration andCOMPAS at Oxford University on the future of cohesion andintegration policy. The event launched a Migration PolicyInstitute report entitled Building a British Model ofIntegration in an Era of Immigration: Policy Lessons forGovernment.

In the report Shamit Saggar and Will Somerville examine theUK’s immigration experience from an integration perspective.They find that the most effectiveroutes to long-term integration areopening up the labour market toimmigrants and implementingmajor mainstream public serviceprogrammes, such as educationpolicies targeted atdisadvantaged pupils. The paperargues that these policies havenot been adequatelyemphasised in the integrationpolicy framework.

No Way in, No Way out: New repo on childrenwithout legal immigration status

An estimated 120,000 children living in the UK without legalimmigration status are at risk of destitution, exploitation andsocial exclusion, according to a report published by OxfordUniversity in May 2012. It shows that irregular migrantchildren – more than half of whom were born in the UK – arebeing trapped between laws protecting children and theenforcement of immigration controls.

No Way Out, No Way In: Irregular migrant children andfamilies in the UK highlights how frequently changingregulations may adversely impact children’s access tohealthcare, education, police protection and other publicservices. The report was published by the Centre onMigration Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the Universityof Oxford, supported by the Trust. It is part of a comparativeresearch project on the lives of undocumented children in theUS and UK led by Georgetown University in Washington DC.

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Migration and EuropeAims to help ensure that migration is managed in a way that is equitable andsocially just and that the voices of both migrants and receiving communitiesare heard in the public debate.

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Women for Refugee Womenrecently launched Refused: Theexperiences of women denied asylumin the UK. The report highlights theexperiences of a group of women whohave claimed asylum in the UK.Although women asylum seekers facemany similar issues to men seekingprotection in the UK, 66% of thoseinterviewed reported havingexperienced some kind of gender-related violence. This included rape,sexual violence, forced prostitution,forced marriage or female genitalmutilation. The report puts forwardrecommendations to ensure that allasylum seekers receive fair treatmentin a system that the Government hasacknowledged should be sensitive tothe needs of women and girls.

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Detention Forum

In March, a grant was awarded to theDetention Forum, a network of over30 NGOs all of whom are working onimmigration detention issues. Its groupswork collectively to challengeimmigration detention and engagepoliticians with issues in this area. Thegrant will enable the group to work onshared objectives and develop workplans to add structure to itscampaigning.

A grant to London-based DetentionAction will support their work tocontinue to play a leading role in thedetention sector both at a UK andEuropean level, using casework dataand strategic partnerships to supportpolicy and advocacy work. The grantwill support the post of Policy andAdvocacy Manager, who will developand monitor the expansion of theorganisation’s services, to ensure that itmeets the changing needs of detaineesand ensure that its caseworkinformation is the basis for itscampaigning.

The Piers Road New CommunitiesCentre Association

The Piers Road New CommunitiesCentre Association is based inBirmingham and will use a grant fromthe Trust to grow the capacity andreputation of the centre as a hub forRefugee Community Organisations inthe city. In addition to this, the projectmanager at the centre will take the leadin establishing Birmingham as a City ofSanctuary – a movement to build aculture of hospitality for people seekingsanctuary in the UK. This is a goodexample of a grant to a grassrootscommunity organisation which is alsoworking at a strategic, city-wide level.

The Trust is delighted that DennisMinnis of the Piers Road NewCommunity Association has beenawarded an OBE in the 2012 Queen'sBirthday Honours List for ‘CommunityCohesion and Charity Work inBirmingham’.

Refugee and Migrant Centre

A grant to the Refugee and MigrantCentre (RMC) in Wolverhampton willsupport the salary of the organisation’sdevelopment manager, who hasensured that RMC has remainedproactive and strategic in challengingtimes and been able to respondpositively to an increase in clients.

So far, the most common reason that the Trust has been unable

to suppo applications to this fund has been that the applicant

organisation did not have the sufficient number of people for good

governance. This should be no less than three on the governing body.

The other main reason for rejection is that there were insufficient plans

for sustainability beyond the Trust’s funding. Applicants should

demonstrate a clear strategy for a sustainable future for the project

and how a small amount of suppo from us will help achieve it.

The Trust would like to encourage small community groups in

paicular to have a look at our Small Change webpage

http://www.bctrust.org.uk/povey-and-inclusion-small-change/

or to call Marina David, Grants and Outreach Officer,

on 0207 632 9067 to discuss your proposal before applying.

Povey and InclusionAims to reduce financial exclusion through changes in policy, and to helpcommunities respond to the new ways in which public services will beprovided and managed. We want our funding to try to ensure that the voiceof local people, paicularly those in disadvantaged areas, is heard and thatcommunities are strengthened in this time of change.

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Small ChangeFollowing the launch of the Trust’s Small ChangeProgramme last year, four further Small Changeapplications were recently approved by the Trust. They are from different parts of Birmingham, servingdifferent wards. The projects are varied and willbenefit local communities.

Better Life Inspiration and Support Services will create a website forthe local community to provide valuable opportunities for betterinteractions and to swap ideas and information or products, in a safe andsecured environment. The website will also be used to create an on-lineforum with networking opportunities, including a link to local businesses,events and local services.

Friends Community Centre will provide sewing classes to women andgirls, helping them to gain a skill which will enable them to producequality items for personal use and for sale.

Polish Expats Association will develop a community language centrewhere translation and interpretation services will become available forthose most in need. They will also set up an online service to attract largerorganisations and external businesses.

Shared Voices will redevelop a community garden and create craftservice at a local community centre aimed at men and womenpredominantly from the BAME and asylum seeking community. This is toencourage individuals and groups to find new ways of becoming involvedin activities that help them to help themselves.

Work withBirmingham Credit UnionsThe Trust is currently piloting a piece ofcapacity building work with four creditunions in Birmingham with theobjective of improving the sustainabilityof the credit union sector in the city aswhole. A grant has enabled the deliveryof an initial scoping exercise at threecredit unions, which has explored backoffice and organisational systems andmade recommendations on how thesecould be made more efficient and costeffective. A second phase of the projectis currently being developed by thecredit unions, which the Trustanticipates this will be a long-term pieceof work which will enable credit unionsin Birmingham to continue to supportclients, whilst engaging with thegovernment’s growing interest intackling financial exclusion through thealternative finance sector.

Sarah Cooper, from St Margaret’s CommunityTrust, works with a community member at thegroup’s credit union collection point.

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Alongside its main Criminal Justice,Migration and Europe and Poveyand Inclusion programmes, the Trustkeeps aside a propoion of its fundingto suppo projects that meet itsmission but do not fit neatly intothose three programmes. Some ofthese grants are for development ofthe voluntary sector and in paicularsuppo for Equalities groups, whileothers are intended to developphilanthropy. Under the Crosscuttingtheme, the Trust has recently awardedgrants to Volunteering England andthe Thomas Paine initiative, while todevelop philanthropy, it has fundedMama Cash and the Pennies Foundation.

Volunteering England

The Trust hasawarded agrant of£30,000 to

Volunteering England to help makethe Investing in Volunteers (IiV) standardmore accessible and affordable for smallorganisations. IiV is the UK qualitystandard for good practice in volunteermanagement and was originally createdby Wandsworth Volunteer Bureau in1995. The standard was launchednationally in 2006 and since then over550 organisations of all sizes and fromacross the UK have achieved this qualityaccreditation.

An evaluation carried out in 2006,found that IiV promoted high standardsof volunteer management and providedorganisations with an opportunity topay increased attention to issues ofdiversity, considering, for example, theethnic makeup of their volunteer groupin relation to the local population orways of involving more young people.However, it the accreditation process isquite expensive for small organisationsso there has been less take-up in thisgroup.

The Trust’s grant will fund VolunteeringEngland to work in partnership withfour Volunteer Centres in the WestMidlands who in turn will support eightsmall community based organisations to

Barrow Cadbury Trust Newsletter - Summer 2012

New grants

Riverside Church TrustA grant to theRiversideChurch Trust,based in

Moseley, Birmingham, will supportthe group to establish the RiversideMoney Advice Service as a formalproject and in a permanent location.Volunteer ‘Money Advisors’ willprovide practical debt advice to thoseseeking it, and help with the issuesthat often accompany debt (such asfamily breakdown, mental healthproblems, or drug and alcoholaddiction). Staff and volunteers at theRiverside Church Trust see this holisticapproach to advice as a majorstrength of the project.

Move Your Money UK Limited

A grant was approved to Move YourMoney UK Limited in May. MoveYour Money is a non-profit campaignthat began in America in 2011, whichaims to help people understand theimpact of their financial choices onthe economy and society and toencourage consumers to use theirpower to build a better bankingsystem. Now formalised in the UK,the campaign will seek to raiseawareness about the alternativebanking sector and to encourage asmany people as possible to movetheir money to ethical, local andmutual financial institutions. Thegrant will enable the organisation toemploy a project manager tocoordinate various aspects of thecampaign. Move Your Money has gotoff to a flying start, with sympatheticpress coverage and a lot of publicinterest. You can visit its website athttp://www.moveyourmoney.org.uk/

achieve the Investing in VolunteerStandard, testing a new delivery modeland set of resources. This will includeaccessible online tools and services tomake it more affordable for smallgroups to achieve the standard. For more information about IiV, visitwww.iiv.investinginvolunteers.org

The Thomas Paine InitiativeAlongside a number of other charitabletrusts and foundations, the BarrowCadbury Trust recently became part ofthe Thomas Paine Initiative, acollaborative fund that will seek toembed respect for human rights in theUK. It aims to promote the fundamentalvalues underlying the EuropeanConvention on Human Rights in the UKand support research considering thepotential options available for changesin UK human rights legislation andregulation. Ultimately, it is hoped thatthis initiative will contribute towardsincreased public support for andawareness of human rights.

Pennies Foundation

The PenniesFoundationraises money bygiving consumers

the option to donate a few pennies oftheir change when paying with a bankcard. It therefore works like anelectronic version of the old-fashionedcharity boxes used by street fundraisersand in shops, and its vision is for verylarge numbers of small donations,which will all add up to a substantialfund. Launched at the start of 2010, ithas already received over 2 millionindividual donations, totalling£500,000.

The Trust’s grant of £20,000 is forpromotional work in Birmingham andthe West Midlands, in which Pennieswill work with retailers and localcharities to identify possible partners.So if you haven’t yet had a chance todonate your electronic small change,keep an eye out for their logo!

“Crosscutting” projects

The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent charitable foundation,committed to supporting vulnerable and marginalised people in society.The Trust promotes social justice through grant making, research,influencing public opinion and policy and supporting local communities.The Trust was founded in 1920 by Barrow Cadbury and his wife GeraldineSouthall Cadbury.

Barrow was the grandson of John Cadbury, the founder of the family-runchocolate business in Birmingham, where Barrow worked for almost 50years, succeeding his uncle George as Chairman in 1918. He andGeraldine were committed Quakers who chose to live modestlythemselves and establish the Trust. In time, their children became Trusteesand their son, Paul Cadbury, took over as Chair in 1959. Paul, his sistersand many of their descendants have all given time to being Trustees andadded generously to the Trust’s endowment. The concerns of the foundersand five generations of their family are still reflected in the work of theTrust today.

Staff listCorporate TeamChief Executive:Sara Llewellin

Executive Assistant andHuman Resources Officer:Madeleine Rooke-Ley

Corporate Affairs Manager:Sharon Wellington

Communications Manager (from July 2012):Paul Evans

Head of Finance and Administration:Mark O’Kelly

Finance and Administration Assistant:Dorota Szabat

Programme TeamHead of ProgrammesDebbie Pippard

Migration and EuropeProgramme Manager:Ayesha Saran

Criminal Justice Programme Manager:Max Rutherford

Grants and Outreach Officer:Clare Payne

Grants and Outreach Officer:Marina David

Programme Administrator:Asma Aroui

London Living Wage Intern – Policy and Programmes (from June 2012):Saskia Enthoven

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