Deadline: 15 September 2017
The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation (PPCF) is currently accepting applications for its grant program with an aim to contribute to the development of a just society based on a commitment to nonviolence and environmental sustainability, the priority being addressing systemic threats by seeking to change policy and attitudes at a national or European level.
Priority Areas
We support work in the following areas:
- Peace and Sustainable Security – We support the development of ways of resolving violent conflicts peacefully, and of addressing their underlying causes.
- Environmental Sustainability – We support work that addresses the pressures and conditions that risk global environmental breakdown.
Size of Grants
The Foundation usually give grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 per year, for up to three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Foundation supports practical projects when they are clearly of a pioneering nature, with potential for influencing UK national policy.
- Foundation also supports 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.
Funding Exclusions
Foundation does not fund:
- organisations that are large
- 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 and 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
How to Apply
Applicants must submit applications in a prescribed format via email.
Eligible Country: UK
For more information, please visit PPCF Grants.