Deadline: 01-May-2022
The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust is accepting applications for its Grants Programme.
Objectives
The objectives of the Trust are to donate to UK registered charities whose purposes encompass one or more of the following:
- to benefit or protect animals
- to relieve animals from suffering
- to conserve wildlife
- to encourage the understanding of animals
Criteria
The Trust favors applications from smaller animal welfare charities registered in the UK and working in the UK or abroad.
- Which have independently examined up-to-date annual accounts.
- Which demonstrate an active re-homing and rehabilitation policy for animals taken into their care
- Involved with conservation of wildlife, when the rescue, rehabilitation and (where possible) the release of animals is their main aim.
Ineligible
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The Trust will not support:
- Applications from individuals.
- Charities registered outside the UK.
- Charities offer sanctuary to animals, with no effort to re-home, foster, or rehabilitate unless endangered species.
- Charities that import dogs or other animals from overseas, unless they can satisfy all of the criteria on the attached link.
- Charities that do not have a realistic destruction policy for animals cannot be given a reasonable quality of life be that medical or behavioral.
- Charities with cash and/or investments valued at more than one year’s expenditure will not qualify for a donation unless it can be demonstrated that reserves are being held specifically for a project.
- Charities that spend more than a reasonable proportion of their annual income on administration or cannot justify their costs per animal helped.
- Applications for a loan.
- They would not normally support an application from overseas charities for funds for capital expenditure.
- Veterinary Schools, unless the money can be seen to be directly benefiting the type of animals the Trust would want to support e.g. welfare-related or low-cost first opinion vet treatment projects.
- The Trust expects all applicants to be charities that have been registered with the Charity Commission for at least 12 months unless their annual income is under £5,000.
For more information, visit Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust.
For more information, visit https://www.jeansainsburyanimalwelfare.org.uk/applications/