Working sheets; publicity contract: details of financial settlements between the organisation and Mr Brokowski from the Net Working Agency.
P45 application forms and 'P45 employee leaving copy' along with income tax details; Inland Revenue form; payroll register with all the names of employees along with details of money received, employment agencies act 1973; salary files completed by various contributors showing their private details (some are photocopies); Standard Form of Engagement for Small Scale Theatre Companies: contract related to the play Rakshasa's Ring by Visakhaddata at the Art Theatre in Great Newport St, London (1986); application for financial support; the London Borough of Camden and other correspondence on finance from Tara Arts Group; grant of £12,300 allocated to the organisation (then the Black Theatre Alliance) by the Greater London Council; letter from the NatWest Bank; invoices from Tara Art group to the Black Theatre Forum; wages sheet with signature of various contributors to state that they have received their payment, report to executive from Black Arts sub-committee and the implementation group; minutes from the Greater London Arts (GLA) of meeting held on the 4th February 1988, GLA budget summary for 1988; 1989, GLA proposed cross association funds 1998;1989, GLA annual support for 1988-1989 GLA performing arts policy objectives, GLA Media committee and strategy, GLA recommendation from performing arts committee to finance and policy sub-committee concerning theatre of Black women; Dance and Music project for Spring 1988.
Copies of funding applications from the Greater London Arts (GLA); correspondence with the NatWest Bank; details of capital expenditure; writers contract questionnaire from the Independent Theatre Council (ITC).
Application forms and brochure from tax office. Media Mis-Representation: ready-made brief to give out when ringing around to present the BTF organisation. Application for post of Co-ordinator filled by Oscar Watson. Action to develop cultural industries and advanced producer service: information from the London voluntary sector training consortium. The Base Theatre company press release (Over the Rainbow, the quarterly journal of the Edward Carpenter community (1996)).
Documents of the early period of the organisation include Talawa Survival Guide to Riverside listing personnel, wages and cast; letter from the Policy Adviser Office for the Race Equality Unit; report on the financial aspect of the 1986 Black Theatre Season ; Membership details giving various theatre company names; press release from the London Forum of Black Arts Officers focusing on research on Black and Non-European Arts in London Boroughs; early notes about the organisation's profile, one showing the objectives of the Black Theatre Alliance renamed as the Black Theatre Forum; copy of funding applications for grants to the Greater London Council with details on theatre plays and the money allocated for early Black Theatre Seasons programmes (1983 and 1984); grant aids and correspondence about instalment of revenue grant.
The photographs were sent to the Forum for consultation and possible use to promote the Children of Africa event held in Hackney. They are all stamped Shutter & F Stop studio in Penge Village. Letter heading also refers to same professional location
Maurer 1998: presentation of the course module Managing Change; Managing for Empowerment: the UK's leading management development programme exclusively for public and voluntary sector managers by the Management Centre.
Women in the Arts: symposium report on notion of equality; Court Theatre training company booklet (July 1995) presenting actors and actresses along with programme.
Funding application; correspondence; artistic evaluation; questionnaires; grants detailing figures of running costs and annual funding.
Report written by executive consultants on the challenge of managing the model arts building project, the various roles of the board, the chair, and other members discussing some issues around the concerns in dealing with new buildings, taking historical arts buildings as example and elements of comparison as well as re-creating the context in which today's arts buildings are coming with
Greater London Council policies, letters, reports, funding application showing grant of £12,300 allocated to the organisation; BTF agenda of meeting for the Black Artists - White Institutions conference (November 1995); letter to Parminer Vir, head of Race Equality Unit, about attendance at artistic committee meetings; London International Festival of Theatre '87: programme.
Draft conference pack organised in partnership with the Guardian and the Scottish Arts Council. Title of the conference: Building the Future: How do We do It?