Deadline: 1-Sep-21
The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust (JSAWT) invites applications for funding from Charities whose purposes encompass one or more of the following:
- to benefit or protect animals
- to relieve animals from suffering
- to conserve wild life
- to encourage the understanding of animals
The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust was set up in 1982, by Mrs Jean Beryl Lilian Sainsbury, and is a registered charity (No. 326358). Since then, the Trust has given just over £10.4 million to animal welfare charities.
Aims
The Trust aims to support UK registered charities by making donations toward the following:
- General running costs associated with the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing or release of domestic, wild and exotic animals.
- Costs associated with the direct protection of endangered species.
- Feeding, capture, neutering and release of feral cats.
- Assistance with vets’ fees and neutering costs of animals owned by those on low incomes.
- Donations towards capital purchases involving land, buildings, vehicles, equipment and educational material. The Trustees may pledge funds towards large capital building projects, which will only be released when all other funding is in place and the work is ready to commence.
- Donations toward the purchase or improvement of property or fixed buildings are only considered if:
- the property is clearly in the ownership of the charity, or
- at least 10 years is left to run on the charity’s lease, or
- a letter from the landowner states that the charity will be reimbursed for the improvements on sale of the property or at the end of the lease. Otherwise, support for improvements can only be considered when they do not increase the saleable value of the property.
Funding Information
The maximum pledge they will give is £35k.
The Trust will not support
- Applications from individuals.
- Charities registered outside the UK.
- Charities offering sanctuary to animals, with no effort to re-home, foster or rehabilitate unless endangered species.
- Charities that bring animals from overseas to the UK will not receive support unless they are also supporting ongoing/doing work in the country of origin (such as vet work and/or helping local shelters).
- Charities that do not have a realistic destruction policy for animals that cannot be given a reasonable quality of life be that medical or behavioural.
- Charities with cash and/or investments valued at more than one year’s expenditure will not qualify for a donation, unless it can be demonstrated that reserves are being held specifically for a project.
- Charities that spend more than a reasonable proportion of their annual income on administration or cannot justify their costs per animal helped.
- They would not normally support an application from overseas charities for funds for capital expenditure.
- Veterinary Schools, unless the money can be seen to be directly benefiting the type of animals the Trust would want to support e.g. welfare-related or low-cost first opinion vet treatment projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Trust expects all applicants to be charities registered with the Charity Commission unless their annual income is under £5,000.
- The Trust favours applications from smaller animal welfare charities registered in the UK and working in the UK or abroad:
- Which have independently examined up to date annual accounts.
- Which demonstrate an active re-homing and rehabilitation policy for animals taken into their care.
- Involved with conservation of wildlife, when the rescue, rehabilitation and (where possible) the release of animals is their main aim.
For more information, visit https://www.jeansainsburyanimalwelfare.org.uk/applications/