its due on Wednesday 17 may, 3500 words, Harvard referencing, be really careful with references please as it will be checked by the turn it in software and if its more than 10 percent ,I’ll be in trouble. I am attaching files with it as supporting material please go through it all and question is explained in detail below: Black Cultural Archives, development of Raleigh Hall In 1981 a group of parents and educationalists under the leadership of the late Len Garrison, established the African People’s Historical Monument Foundation. The Foundation was established to set up a Black Cultural Archives and Museum in Brixton to collect, document and disseminate the culture and history of the peoples of African and Caribbean ancestry living in Britain. The urgent need for such an institution emerged during the 1960s when the children of African and Caribbean settlers were beginning to be categorised as underachievers in the British education system. At the same time, black children educated in Africa or the Caribbean were achieving their potential. Evidence was therefore that the British education system was failing black children. BCA proposes to refurbish and extend Raleigh Hall, a prominent listed but derelict building in the heart of Brixton, as a new Black Heritage Centre which will house its archive collection, and offer a range of exhibitions, courses and activities. Raleigh Hall is owned by LB Lambeth. It has been empty for 20 years. The Council has pledged to gift a long lease in the building to BCA. They have been planning and preparing for this project since 2004, and in the past five years has received capacity building and project development funding from HLF, the London Development Agency (LDA), LB Lambeth and Neighbourhood Renewal Fund amounting to nearly £1 million. The Capital project will cost £5.626 million. It will be funded by HLF (£3.6m), LDA (£1m), LB of Lambeth (approx. £0.376m) and trusts and foundations including major gifts from Biffa Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Foyle Foundation (£0.650m). The Raleigh Hall building will be developed along with a new annexe to contain a new-build archive store and exhibition space and exhibition space, plus large education room, a library/archive reading room, two multipurpose rooms, café and small shop, offices and service areas in the refurbished building. With the archive at its heart, the Black Heritage Centre will offer an interactive programme of activity that links past and present to a wide range of users with particular focus initially on local residents and schools. The Centre is projected to attract 36,000 visitors and users in year 1 and 46,000 in year 3. The Centre will be a vibrant, stimulating, creative, welcoming hub of activity and an active and engaging source of knowledge of national and international significance. Brixton has benefited from considerable regeneration and development in recent years. The LDA and LB Lambeth see the Black Heritage Centre as an integral element of their regeneration strategy, which will act as a magnet and focal point for visitors attracted to Brixton by its history as the ‘heart of London’s Black community’. the development project will make a major contribution to the physical regeneration of central Brixton; learning and engagement programmes will also make a major contribution to the social regeneration of the area. Assignment The focus of coursework is a professional style report on one recent major regeneration project Black Cultural Archives, development of Raleigh Hall In describing and analysing the project you must include critical discussion of the following issues (you will need to deal with some in more/less detail than others): - how were the problems of the area defined and by whom and - how did project objectives relate to these? – how 'radical' or traditional was the initiative? – is it some kind of flagship project - was a 'target group' and/or ‘target area’ of project beneficiaries identified - the nature of the property interests involved - sources of funding and political support - was its scope local, regional or national or wider? - make specific recommendations for how the project could be improved. In describing and analysing the project you may include some of the following issues: - the approach of the solution i.e. any underlying assumptions or stated theories - perception of the project by different interests - what problems appeared during or after implementation - how did the project relate to the statutory planning system - was monitoring and evaluation 'built in' from the start or added later? - what criteria may/should be used for evaluation in the future? Please note that you are not expected to carry out an evaluation of the project, though you may discuss how the project is to be monitored and evaluated and suggest how evaluation might be improved, e.g. with better and more appropriate evaluation criteria.