Deadline: 28 February 2020
The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation (PPCF) is a grant giving trust with Quaker family roots in the United Kingdom.
The PPCF aims to contribute to the development of a just society based on a commitment to nonviolence and environmental sustainability.
The priority is to address systemic threats by seeking to change policy and attitudes at a national or European level. In order to do this, in the limited areas described below they support projects that seek to influence values and attitudes, promote equity and social justice, and develop radical alternatives to current economic and social structures.
PPCF Fund
- Peace and Sustainable Security: Support the development of ways of resolving violent conflicts peacefully, and of addressing their underlying causes.
- Environmental Sustainability: Support work that addresses the pressures and conditions that risk global environmental breakdown.
Funding Information
- The Foundation usually give grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 per year, for up to three years.
- They usually support organisations for whom this would represent between 4% and 50% of their annual income (organisations with an annual income of between £10,000 and £500,000 approximately).
Funding Exclusion
Foundation does not fund:
- organisations that are large (see above)
- organisations that are outside UK (unless they are linked with a UK registered charity and doing work of international focus)
- work outside the UK (unless it is of international focus)
- grants to individuals
- travel bursaries (including overseas placements & expeditions)
- study
- academic research
- capital projects (e.g. building projects or purchase of nature reserves)
- community or local practical projects (except innovative projects for widespread application)
- youth work, youth training and youth camps
- environmental/ ecological conservation
- international agencies and overseas appeals
- general appeals
- human rights work (except where it relates to peace and environmental sustainability).
- community mediation and crime related work
Eligibility Criteria
- The Foundation only support practical projects when they are clearly of a pioneering nature, with potential for influencing UK national policy.
- Foundation is a UK based grant giving charity. They support the work of UK registered charitable NGOs.
- Foundation also support organisations or projects that are not UK registered charities if they can indicate a UK registered charity that is able to receive funds on their behalf.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, visit https://www.polden-puckham.org.uk/how-to-apply-report