Apply for A B Charitable Trust Grant Programme – UK

Deadline: 25-Oct-24

The A B Charitable Trust is offering grants to support work that promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of the most marginalised and excluded people.

The A B Charitable Trust aim to support organisations who learn from their work and respect the agency and talents of the people they work with, putting their interests front and centre.

The A B Charitable Trust fund small to medium sized organisations who work in these priority areas.

The focus is on supporting the most marginalised and excluded groups in the UK, who are often from communities experiencing poverty and racial injustice.

Priority Areas

• The human rights framework
• Access to Justice
• The Criminal Legal System and Penal Reform
• Migrants and Refugees

Funding Information

• The human rights framework and Access to justice
  • Largest grant: £27,500
  • Average grant: £19,500
  • Smallest grant: £15,000
• The Criminal Legal System and Penal Reform
  • Largest grant: £27,500
  • Average grant: £19,600
  • Smallest grant: £15,000
• Migrants and refugees
  • Largest grant: £30,000
  • Average grant: £19,500
  • Smallest grant: £10,000

What they Fund?

• The A B Charitable Trust works with organisations which do any or all of the following:
  • 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 within their priorities forms a significant strand, and the organisation can show it is best placed to deliver the work.
• The human rights framework
  • Deliver activities to protect the human rights framework and the principles of human rights and the rule of law, including campaigning, advocacy, and narrative change work
  • Note: this does not include single issue or single right campaigning work, or human rights work focused on particular groups, unless these are captured by the other funding streams.
• Access to Justice
  • Provide specialist legal advice and representation. By ‘specialist’ they mean related to resolving a legal problem with specialist casework and/or advice through representation, and/or by being expert in a specific area of law
  • Work to influence law, policy and practice through e.g. strategic litigation or public law challenges
  • Strengthen the sector and supports organisations delivering work in this area
  • Deliver activities to protect the principles of human rights and the rule of law, including campaigning, advocacy and narrative change work
• The Criminal Legal System and Penal Reform
  • 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
• Migrants and Refugees
  • Deliver services directly targeting migrant communities, and people who are refugees or seeking asylum
  • Influence law and policy, public opinion and narratives
  • Strengthen the voluntary sector and support organisations delivering work in this area

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for the open programme, an applicant will:
  • Work in one of their priority areas
  • Be registered as a UK charity, delivering work in the UK
  • Have an annual income between £150k and £1.5m (this applies to the most recent published accounts and the two subsequent financial years – this would include draft figures and forecasts).
  • Have operated for at least a year and be able to provide a full year’s audited or independently examined accounts

Ineligible

• Individuals
• The promotion of religion
• Capital appeals
• Academic research
• Charities with large national links.

For more information, visit A B Charitable Trust.