In January 2022, Cambridge University Libraries launched a pilot decolonisation fund to enable faculty and departmental libraries to purchase diversity- and decolonisation-related material beyond reading lists. The fund was refreshed and relaunched with the support of the Decolonisation Working Group for the academic year 2022/23 and continued in 23/24 and 24/25. The Decolonisation Working Group had agreed, before the group was wound up in May 2025, that the decolonisation fund would end after 2024/25, since lower numbers of requests suggested that decolonisation-related purchases were now being standardly made from existing local budgets.
Faculty and departmental librarians who have problems getting hold of print books and might benefit from access to the wide range of vendors that the Department of Collections and Academic Liaison has are still very welcome to get in touch with CAL at any point (recommendations@lib.cam.ac.uk).
The January-July 2022 decolonisation trial fund was spend on material detailed here in a CAL departmental update. The fund's use since the trial until mid-June 2024 can be found in this blog post.