Deadline: 27-Oct-23
The A B Charitable Trust is seeking applications for its grant programme to support work that promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of the most marginalised and excluded people.
Priority Areas
- Migrants and Refugees
- A country in which people who migrate, are refugees or seeking asylum are made welcome, treated lawfully and fairly, and enabled to maximise their potential.
- The Justice System and Penal Reform
- An equitable justice system, with a greatly reduced prison population, which considers individual needs and potential, and places a focus on prevention and rehabilitation.
- Human Rights
- A robust legal and policy framework to protect and uphold human rights in the UK.
- Access to Justice
- Ensuring everyone in the UK, regardless of income or geographical location, has access to high quality legal advice, so that they can realise their rights.
Funding Information
- Open Programme grants are usually between £10,000 to £25,000 per year and are awarded from one to three years.
Funding Criteria
- The A B Charitable Trust works with organisations which do any or all of the following:
- Deliver effective services for individuals (and their families) who are at risk of contact with or within the justice system (at any stage, from prevention to police to courts and prison)
- Support effective rehabilitation in the community
- Work to influence policy, public opinion, and narratives and to reform/reimagine the justice system
- Strengthen the sector and support organisations delivering work in this area
- They usually fund organisations working solely in this priority area. For these organisations, core funding (unrestricted grants) or project funding (restricted grants) are both available. They are happy to give unrestricted funding so please don’t create a project specially for them, but feel free to apply for project funding if that would most benefit your organisation at the current time.
- Very occasionally they also accept restricted grant applications from organisations working more broadly, where the work that fits the priorities forms a significant strand, and the organisation can show it is best placed to deliver the work.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for the open programme, an applicant will:
- Work in one of the priority areas
- Be registered as a UK charity, delivering work in the UK
- Have an annual income between £150k and £1.5m (in both the most recent financial year and forecast for current financial year)
- Have operated for at least a year and be able to provide a full year’s audited or independently examined accounts
Ineligibility Criteria
- Individuals
- The promotion of religion
- Capital appeals
- Academic research
- Charities with large national links
For more information, visit A B Charitable Trust.