Resources and resilience

MS 1579/2/22

Resources and resilience

2001 - 2011

See also the minutes of the Inclusive Communities Programme, MS 1579/1/1/2/1.

Copyright: Barrow Cadbury Trust and others

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Organisations involved: Barrow Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd.

Previous titles and/or title variations: poverty and inclusion; inclusive communities.

Related grant categories: n/a.

Dates of use: 2003/2004 to current.

Cadbury Trusts grant subject filing reference number(s): n/a.

The resources and resilience grant category was originally established in 2003/2004 as the Inclusive Communities Programme. That year a general reorganisation of Trust programmes occurred reducing the total number of programmes from six to three. As part of this reorganisation, ongoing grants from the defunct asylum, immigration and resettlement, disability, community organising, racial justice and gender categories were assigned to the new inclusive communities heading. These grants had a broadly domestic focus. Inclusive communities grants were overseen by the Relevant Trustees of the Inclusive Communities Programme.

At the time of its creation Trustees defined the remit of the Inclusive Communities Programme as tackling poverty amongst people who are marginalised and excluded from society. Key areas of this work include migrants and refugees, ethnic minorities, disadvantaged women, people with disabilities and improving outcomes in deprived areas. Two major policy areas, 1) the promotion of social justice approaches in public policy, and 2) the role of the independent voluntary sector, underpin the work of the Inclusive Communities Programme. The first grant files under this heading appear in 2003/2004 and are generally labelled with the name of the grantee and no filing references.

During its first year of operation, 2003/2004, the Trust committed £1,562,000 to inclusive communities grants as compared to £1,046,000 for the Global Exchange Programme and £187,000 for the Offending and Early Interventions Programme. Prominent inclusive communities grant recipients during this period include the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Institute for Public Policy Research, The 1990 Trust, the Citizen Organising Foundation, the Circles Network and the Fabian Society.

In 2009/2010 the inclusive communities heading was renamed 'poverty and inclusion'. Its core functions of supporting effective approaches to combatting poverty and inequality and assisting to build inclusive communities remained unaltered. During that year Trust spending in this category amounted to £691,520 as compared to £1,386,503 for criminal justice work and £825,259 for migration. In 2010/2011 poverty and inclusion expenditure totalled £845,019. This figure increased to £884,232 in 2011/2012 and to £921,390 in 2012/2013.

A further change of heading occurred in 2013 with poverty and inclusion being superseded by 'resources and resilience'. Current funding (as of 2014) in this programme area focuses on 1) projects in Birmingham and the Black Country that are seeking to build financial inclusion and/or people's ability to participate and influence at a local level to improve their resilience, 2) projects in Birmingham and the Black Country that are supporting effective and sustainable approaches to building community-led social change at a local level in communities, 3) policy and research work that support effective approaches to building sustainable and socially just economic systems, and 4) community led mutual aid and enterprise projects in Birmingham and the Black Country, under the Trust's Small Change programme. The Resources and Resilience Programme is administered by Programme Manager Clare Payne.