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Draft strategy proposal by the African Community Centre (ACC) to establish community centres at various locations throughout Wales.

Material relating to the influence of black music and musicians on the music and culture of Britain, and in particular of Swansea, in the earlier part of the 20th century, including lists of jazz bands and orchestras; photocopied photographs of white and blackface 'minstrel' bands; photocopied press cuttings; and printouts from online sources; together with general material relating to black issues, history and influence on white culture, including correspondence between Jen Wilson and Ray Winbush and others and printouts from online sources.

Song sheets and piano reduction scores for popular pieces such as Red Sails In The Sunset, We'll Meet Again and I Dreamed A Dream (from Les Misérables) and for classical pieces such as the Infernal Galop from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Schubert's Serenade, together with used ready-scored music manuscript books and fragments of handwritten music manuscripts. Some song sheets photocopied. Some items appear to have belonged to Jen Wilson and/or members of her family.

Awards given to the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz in recognition of their work.

Material relating to the BBC Wales Arts Awards ceremony 1994 held at the Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University, 11 December 1994, at which the Women's Jazz Archive (as it was then known) was Highly Commended in the Enabling Award category.

Material relating to the Diversity Awards Wales 2003 ceremony held at the Brangwyn Hall, The Guildhall, Swansea, 25 October 2003, at which Women in Jazz won the Best Racial Diversity Practice in Performing Arts category and were runners-up in the Best Racial Diversity Practice by a Voluntary Sector Establishment for their on-going Roots projects. Entertainment at the ceremony included a performance by the Jen Wilson Trio.

Material relating to Women in Jazz's submission for the Lord Mayor's Community Regeneration Awards 2004 under the Outstanding Community Contribution - Group category.

Photocopied letter relating to Jen Wilson's nomination of Derek Gabriel for the Wales Volunteer of the Year Award 2007.

Material relating to funding applications made by the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales to the Arts Council of Wales, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, the Heritage Lottery Fund and others, including application forms, correspondence, reports and accounts; together with inscribed plaque awarded to Women in Jazz by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.

Material relating to Women's Jazz Archive funding applications made to the Arts Council of Wales, the South-East Wales Arts Association, the Welsh Folk Museum (now St Fagans National Museum) and others during the 1980s.

Material relating to Women's Jazz Archive funding applications made to the Arts Council of Wales, the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and others during the 1990s.

Material relating to Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz funding applications made to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of Wales and others, 2000-2002.

Material relating to Women in Jazz funding applications made to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of Wales and others, 2003-2006.

Material relating to Women in Jazz funding applications made to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of Wales, Swansea Council for Voluntary Service and others, 2007-2009.

Material relating to Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales funding applications made to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Arts Council of Wales and others during the 2010s.

Undated material relating to funding applications made by the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales.

Inscribed plaque denoting that the Women in Jazz/Women's Jazz Archive premises were grant aided by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.

Administrative material relating to Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales, comprising details of Board of Trustees meetings; reports; accounts; correspondence; general administrative material; and alphabetised index cards.

Material mainly comprising details relating to Women in Jazz Board of Trustees meetings, with related correspondence.

Women in Jazz reports relating to projected business plans/strategic aims, events, conferences, meetings, staffing, accounting, etc.