Deadline: Ongoing
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is currently accepting applications for its Lost Childhoods Fund to enable especially vulnerable people living anywhere in India to improve their lives.
Lost Childhoods is concerned with the many thousands of children and young people who run away from home and gravitate towards railways, where they are vulnerable to many forms of exploitation, trafficking, drugs and crime.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding under this theme can be for work taking place anywhere in India.
- Organisations supported within the India programme have to be local Indian NGOs with Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration.
- Foundation does not support non-Indian organisations or locally registered branches of non-Indian organisations and organisations without FCRA registration.
- PHF does not support political or religious institutions.
- Foundation prefers to work with organisations that have self-imposed and self-implemented policies on honesty and transparency in their finances and operations that are of the highest standard. We also prefer to work with organisations whose strategies and activities are formed on the basis of community leadership or participation, local knowledge and experience.
- Foundation will not support:
- Individuals or proposals for the benefit of one individual
- Retrospective funding for work that has already started
- General circulars/appeals
- Proposals that solely concentrate on the purchasing of property, equipment or other capital items
- Overseas activities, including travel, expeditions, adventure and residential courses
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: India
For more information, please visit Lost Childhoods Fund.