Mission statement

To create the Communities of Resistance Centre, an education and information resource accessible to local communities in Newham and surrounding boroughs, that will provide both an unique archive documenting the history and changing experiences of black people resisting racism in east London and a authoritative reference library of information on race, crime and policing issues,

Aims and objectives

NMP Anti-Racist Trust seeks to develop a new educational and information resource centre based within the London Borough of Newham, with the following aims:

• To collect and catalogue over 30 years of photographs, printed materials and oral testimony that illustrate the experiences of black communities settling in Newham and surrounding boroughs and the means by which our communities resisted the racism they faced.
  
  
• To ensure that this material is available to schools, universities, researchers and the general public in an accessible form, so that this history and experience is not lost.
  
  
• To develop a specialist reference library that brings together the latest information on race, crime and policing issues.

In order to achieve these objectives, the Trust seeks to:

• Bring together photographs and printed information held by those who have played an active part in resisting racism in east London over the years, including those who have been involved in Newham Monitoring Project and other anti-racist organisations.
  
  
• Set up a library service that will act as a respected point of reference for those seeking to know more about the changing social, legal and policy responses to racism, crime and policing in Britain
  
  
• Open an accessible resource centre, the Communities of Resistance Centre, as a home for the collection and for the library.
  
  
• Develop an Oral History project that interviews local people and captures their experiences of facing and overcoming racism.
  
  
• Set up a digital community archive accessible via the Internet
  
  
• Prepare and stage exhibitions that can highlight aspects of the experiences of new communities in east London, with particular emphasis on work with schools.