CFAs: A B Charitable Trust Grant Programme (UK)

Deadline: 25-Jul-25

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

Priority Areas

The Human Rights Framework:
- The A B Charitable Trust supports organisations which work to protect the human rights framework in the UK. Activities could include campaigning, advocacy and influencing, legal, and narrative change work, but this must cover the framework as a whole.
- Some examples of work they might support under this priority, include organisations that:
  - Focus on advocacy and campaigning around human rights legislation and application in the UK;
  - Undertake legal representation and litigation for victims of human rights abuses;
  - Support individuals, communities and statutory bodies to understand their human rights.
Access to Justice:
- The A B Charitable Trust works with organisations that provide specialist legal advice and representation. They define specialist legal advice as relating to the resolution of a legal problem where the advice is tailored to the individual’s circumstances. This would normally include end-to-end casework (where you take action on behalf of your clients to move their cases on) through to representation. It would not normally include one-off interventions.
The Criminal Legal System and Penal Reform:
- The A B Charitable Trust works with organisations that support individuals and communities who are in contact with the criminal legal system, or at imminent risk of coming into contact, and particularly those focused on harm prevention.
Migrants and Refugees:
- The A B Charitable Trust works with organisations that support communities who migrate to the UK, and people who are refugees or seeking asylum.

Funding Information

Open Programme grants are usually between £10,000 to £30,000 per year and are awarded from one to three years. Insofar as possible they provide unrestricted funding.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, your organisation will:
- Have a mission, aims and objectives aligned with one of their four priority areas. This must be either the sole focus, or the majority of your work and they are unlikely to fund organisations with a broader remit. If your work is broader, please contact us before applying.
- Be registered as a UK charity, delivering work in the UK.
- Have an annual income between £150k and £1.5m
- Have operated for at least a year and be able to provide a full year’s audited or independently examined accounts.