Details on the funding body sent to Oscar Watson (July 1997)
Information on cultural funding bodies; correspondence and application forms. Highlights: correspondence from the Young Warriors Theatre Company (Zimbabwe) over cultural exchange programmes, Arts Council Schemes from writers and theatre companies (1991/1992); the Arts Foundation brochure; financial fundraising report; London Borough Grants Committee application form; Brent Drugs Unit, London Arts Board; London Borough of Brent; Miscellaneous section also includes BTF's aims and objectives; contacts: handbook from Commonwealth Youth Exchange, Zimbabwe 1986 (hand written notes and one picture); guidelines for awards 1991 by Visiting Arts; the Baring foundation; the Tudor Trust; A Guideline to Grants and Loans (DTI); media 1991- 1995; the ITV Fund.
Letters of response from possible sponsors of the event (1996); venue information; minutes of Black Art Action Day event; correspondence; information on Black Performing Arts.
Minutes of the Mime Action Group executive committee (January 1996); office correspondence with funding bodies including National Strategic Organisations for Drama; correspondence with The New Playwrights Trust.
Twenty-three fundraising letters from and to various personalities, two letters from Miriam Makeba and newspaper cutting on the artist; hire charge for the Hackney Theatre possibly used for the fundraising event in 1991.
Correspondence; listings; hand-written labels with individuals' details; notes on council staff member Jenny Bernard; contact names of individuals and institutions taking part in the Lane End Conference - Yes It Can Be Fun: Working in Black Arts Administration; Art Management (1994); resume of participants,
The file includes Mission Statement, correspondence with funding bodies with hand written notes on fundraising strategy; general information on: Gulbenkian Foundation, The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, London Arts Board, The Arts Council of England
London Arts Board and Arts Council of England Annual Reports (1996 - 1997); Aha newsletter 1995; London Arts Board periodical The Frame, two issues; Arts Council of England newsletter; London Arts Board newsletters (1996 and 1998); On Course, issue No16 (1995); Independent Theatre Council (ITC) 1996; Creativity within Black Disabled Communities (1998); Centre for Performance Research newsletters (1997), three issues 1996 - 1997; New Playwrights Trust newsletter, no 106 and Commissioning the Future: New Playwrights Trust 1997 press release; ITC file includes The Creative Platform Newsletter 1998; ITC training information; BBC letter from Jonquil Panting, Black Literature Festival (1995); Black Writers Initiatives context; Oscar Watson correspondence to Jason Wright at LWT; Su Andi from Black Arts Alliance fax to O. Watson (1995).
Various documents including correspondence with potential sponsors addressing the need for financial support, ABSA Business and Arts bulletin (1987) and information on other funding bodies.
Content of letters: cultural contacts directory-database; information on Black Arts Networking, Reaching Audiences seminar, Theatrical Management Association, Reaching Black Audiences conference (1991).
Information material and correspondence including details of funds awarded, progress of the bids, funding criteria and assessment from Arts Council of Great Britain
React Project presented as Britain's first Black Youth Theatre; educational material including: Brent Education Department School and Colleges telephone list and services; teaching material for children 9-13 (Health Education Authority 1990); The Gulbenkian Foundation guide (1991).