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).
Children of Africa project: publicity notebook with detached pages including press release and Nelson Mandela's appeal; fundraising gala notebook (1991); copy of letter from Miriam Makeba; Children of Africa publicity leaflets. Listing detailing the organisation's staff telephone numbers.
Chair's folder documenting activities to help raising the company's profile: correspondence, including letter to Whoopie Goldberg and Nelson Mandela's response to Miriam Makeba on Children of Africa project; information on Children of Africa project; Malcolm Frederick's signature; funding application forms (1986); handwritten notes; React project leaflets and project proposals.
In 2020 Future Histories reached out to members of the Black Lives Matter movement in London to raise awareness of the importance of archiving the movement. At the same time a Covid-19 emergency funding was granted by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to rescue Future Histories' online resources from technological obsolescence.
Since 2015 a number of research initiatives were delivered by Dr Terracciano in collaborations with HE institutions including University College London and Gothenburg University, as well as conference papers and publications. Goldsmiths University students continued to access the collections, including those enrolled on the MA Black British Literature launched in 2015 by Prof Joan Anim-Addo and Dr Deirdre Osborne at Goldsmiths University.
