amiel and melburn trust

The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust considers applications for funding awards twice yearly and the next meeting at which we would be able to consider your application for funding will be held on 28 January 2016.

The closing deadline for submissions to this meeting is Friday 11th December 2015. Please note, both hard copies and electronic copies of applications must be received by this date. Applications received after the deadline will not be accepted.

The Trust considers applications for major funding awards (applications over £6,000) only once a year at the January meeting. Please refer to the application guidelines for further information.

If you do wish to make an application for funds, please click here to download the application form. All applications must be submitted in hardcopy and by email. Please read the applications guidelines carefully. Any applications which do not meet the application guidelines will not be accepted. Click here for application guidelines and Trust Objectives. If you have any further queries please contact the administrator on apply@amielandmelburn.org.uk

Please note that the Trust does not award funds to subsidize the continuation or running of University/College courses; cover transportation costs to or from Conferences; or subsidize fees/maintenance for undergraduate or postgraduate students.



Grants & awards		Application for funding The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust considers applications for funding awards twice yearly and the next meeting at which we would be able to consider your application for funding will be held on 28 January 2016. The closing deadline for submissions to this meeting is Friday 11th December 2015. Please note, both hard copies and electronic copies of applications must be received by this date. Applications received after the deadline will not be accepted. The Trust considers applications for major funding awards (applications over £6,000) only once a year at the January meeting. Please refer to the application guidelines for further information. If you do wish to make an application for funds, please click here to download the application form. All applications must be submitted in hardcopy and by email. Please read the applications guidelines carefully. Any applications which do not meet the application guidelines will not be accepted. Click here for application guidelines and Trust Objectives. If you have any further queries please contact the administrator on apply@amielandmelburn.org.uk Please note that the Trust does not award funds to subsidize the continuation or running of University/College courses; cover transportation costs to or from Conferences; or subsidize fees/maintenance for undergraduate or postgraduate students.
NINA FISHMAN TRANSLATION AWARD Nina Fishman was a political historian, thinker and activist, and the author of important books such as The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions (1995) and the two-volume Arthur Horner: A Political Biography (2011). She was also an active member of the board of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust. In her honour a specific fund has been created to support the translation into English of works that fall within the interests of the Trust. No topic is specified but the Trust is particularly keen to support works on topics that would have interested Prof. Fishman such as Labour history, European socialism and social democracy, the theory and practice of industrial relations (for further information on this please see http://www.ninafishman.org/). The Trust will consider applications for translations of essays, articles, book chapters and interviews as well as full length books. The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust will consider applications for this award on Thursday, 15th October 2015. The closing deadline for submissions to this meeting is Thursday, 17th September 2015. If you do wish to make an application for funds, please contact the administrator on apply@amielandmelburn.org.uk specifying that you wish to apply for the ‘Nina Fishman Translation Award’. You will be sent application guidelines along with an application form specifically for the Nina Fishman Translation Award. Application forms are only available from the administrator. Any applications which do not meet the application guidelines will not be accepted. The Runner is a film about endurance. It is the story of a champion long-distance runner whose journey transformed him from an athlete into the symbol of a national liberation movement. Salah Ameidan is willing to risk his life, his career, his family and his nationality to run for a country that doesn't exist. He is from Western Sahara, officially Africa's last colony and under Moroccan occupation since 1975. Press release: Local Actors on Trail of Trade Union Hero A company of North West actors will be visiting The Met, in Bury, this month to perform their adaptation of “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.” <read more> The Merlin Press have just announced publication due in April 2007 of Michael Wolfers biography of Thomas Hodgkin, book supported by the Barry Amiel & Norman melburn Trust
	When Thomas Hodgkin left Oxford few would have expected that someone from a privileged public school would emerge as a Marxist and a dissident. Michael Wolfers provides the first detailed biography of Hodgkin - as a remarkable human being and intellectual.
Black Gold, a film documentary supported by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust is part of the official selection of the London Film Festival 2006. Black Gold is a moving and eye-opening look into the 80-billion-dollar global coffee industry, where the spoils of overpriced lattes and cappuccinos are sparsely shared with the farmers who make it all possible. Sundance Film Festival

Funded Applications in 2012 John Powles The Spirit of Revolt Collection Scoping Project Dr Claire Warden ‘Salute to the Red Army’: Basil Dean’s Russian Adventures Laura Mitchison Sounds from the Park Gerry Hassan The Strange Death of Labour Scotland Set of Discussions Maie El Hag Voices of African Women Simon Mohun Marxist Political Economy Training Workshop Doreen Weppler-Grogan Beyond the Frame: Contemporary Cuban Art Tour and Exhibition Jo Metson Scott Crystalisation of Conscience Mel Evans License to Spill Tom Cutterham The Oxford Left Review Helen Ford The Jewish Garment Workers Project Jennie Buckman SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) Christabel Gurney Forward to Freedom: The British Anti-Apartheid Movement and the liberation of Southern Africa John Perry Bolton Socialist Club News International Dispute Exhibition Working Party News International Dispute – the strike that made the modern media Manifesto Press A Red Road: The Life of Phil Piratin, Communist MP Anne Lineen Britain in Palestine Jeff Howarth Digitalisation of GFTU Publications 1899 to date Dr Peter North Remembering Liverpool Labour Council 1983-87 Funded Applications in 2011 Sian Williams Against the Odds: Paul Robeson and Josef Herman in South Wales Compass Good Banking Janet Druker Preserving Trade Union History: union organization in the construction industry Scottish Left Review New Website and Archive Angela Dimitrakaki Economy Corporate Watch Corporate Watch privatisation project Hamish Henderson Archive Trust Hamish Henderson Archive Deborah Mutch Socialist.com The Jewish Museum 1936: Radical Roots Kevin Morgan An inventory of the papers of Edmund and Ruth Frow Peoples Printing Press Digitalization of the Daily Worker Judith Brown Cultural exchange visit Jil Cove Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street Jonathan Burnett Solidarity and the new geography of racism Professor Catherine Hall Neal Lecture and Conference in British History 2012 Deborah Littman The living wage, what it is and how to get it John Page CLR James Legacy Project Banner Theatre Welfare State of Market Place? The Stop the War Coalition Ten Years of Stop the War Coalition Alun Parry Working Class Life and Music Festival Amir Amirani We Are Many Claudia May When the Negro Question meets the Woman Question Funded Applications in 2010 Anneliese Midgley Progressive London Christine Coates Britain@Work website Jonathan Rutherford New Political Economy Network Michael Berlin The Partisan Coffee House Gillian Lonergan Rochdale Project Gareth Owen Modern Records Centre Alessandro Carlucci New Insights into Gramsci’s Life & Work Suchetana Chattopadhyay The Myth of the Outsider Dr Tara Martin Blasted Hopes of the Past Jane Holgate Hackney Unites Jenny Lynn Discover Palestine John Green Money Makes the World Go Round Alun Parry Robert Tressell Compass Compass Annual Lecture Funded Applications in 2009 Richard Kuper Independent Jewish Media Centre Prof. Sean Sayers Marx and Philosophy Review of Books NHS Support Federation NHS Unlimited Tamasha Ishtiaq Ahmed Din Prof. Lynne Segal Sites of Conflict Lindsay German Georgi Dimitrov Alan Finlayson Raymond Williams Archive Verso Books A Palestinian Life Dr Loma Chessum Radical Education in a Cold Climate Yachavwasi Films Two Worlds Collide Alun Parry Working Class Music Festival Neil Findlay Half the World Away Pojects awarded grants in 2002-2006 Dingle Community Theatre Simon Jones was Someone Compass Compass working group seminars Martin Jacques Nature of Asian Modernity Camden Abu Dis Friendship Assoc Abu Dis Young People’s visit to Camden Hilary Smith Palestinian Women Speak Victor Jara Foundation Archive Preventive Conservation Gavin Rae Poland’s Road From Socialism Dr Julian Tudor Hart Julian Tudor Hart Website Matthew Worley Togliatti Peace Institute Postfordism Grassroots Umbrella Network Education & Training Project Andrew Flinn Labour in Exile Compass Compass Manifesto for Democratic Left Ken Sprague Fund Ken Sprague Fund Andrew Pearmain Gramsci in History Cuba Choir Santiago de Cuba Dr Gavin Rae Poland's fragmenting consensus Alan Miles Who Shot the Sheriff Bevan Foundation Social justice workshop Fulcrum TV One man and his books Wayne David - Ness Edwards Lawrence & Wishart - Arthur Horner www.l-w-bks.co.uk/ Media Lens media lens http://www.medialens.org/index.html J Callaghan Rethinking Social Democracy J Tomasiewicz Stalinist-Maoist Opposition Peace Institute Slovenia Love and Politics http://www.mirovni-institut.si/ H Wainwright Pilot of a European Left P Walton Dancing for Palestine New Left Trust NLR Archive http://www.newleftreview.net/ Big Thinking Tom Nairn: the Break-up of Britain The Initiative Factory: Mayday Celebratios 2003 Sheffield Socialist Choir: Cuba Solidarity Campaign http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~matt/choir/ssc.html Dr H Jones Online Resources in CPGB History TUC Library Collection The Union Makes Us Strong http://www.unionhistory.info/ Int. Centre for Labour Studies Source of Radicalism conference http://les1.man.ac.uk/icls/events.html#Sources J Clark Shaking the Chains Prof J Callaghan Rethinking Social Democracy Scottish Left Review SLR Archive http://www.scottishleftreview.org/ Socialist History Society Dissent & the State 1945-2000 http://www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/welcome.htm Ruth First Memorial Trust Archive Project http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/archives/first.htm North West Labour History Group Journal Summer 2002 http://www.wcml.org.uk/nwlhg/home.html J Peck Persistance: The story of British Communist R Hunter Edward Ruston Dr A Ramamurthy Imperial Persuader A Boyd Jim Connell P Anderson Remodelling the Economic Model of Development Democratic Left Scotland Seminar/Publication Transnational Institute World Social Forum http://tni.antenna.nl/index.phtml J Toporowski Sam Aaronovitch Research Prof G Craig Joe Kenyon Archive H Wainwright Red Pepper Supplement G Andrews Culture, Ideology and Strategy of the PCGB Catalyst Globalisation http://www.catalystforum.org.uk/about/index.html Democratic Left Scotland Eurovision Media Lens media lens http://www.medialens.org/index.html M Worley In Search of Revolution Red Herring Product, The Politics Issues The Trust granted from 1993 to 2001 the following funds: conferences: £ 42,488 publications: £ 46,194 archiving: £ 60,671 performances £ 11,000.


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