Deadline: 31 July 2017
The Joffe Charitable Trust is seeking applications for its Small Grants Programme to fund initiatives that have the potential to make a disproportionate impact in the world’s poorest countries on the underlying causes of poverty and the advancement of human rights.
Priority Areas
The work funded is limited primarily to two areas:
- effective and focused campaigning (for instance, arms control, women’s rights, tax justice, transparency), and
- innovative projects delivering critical services to poor people which additionally have the potential to influence government policy.
Geographic Focus
The Trust particularly focuses on Anglophone Africa. This does not exclude wide-ranging initiatives focused on the developing world as well as Anglophone Africa (for instance, arms control or taxation).
Funds Available
The grants under this programme will be between £5,000 to £20,000 per year for one to three years (i.e. a total grant of between £5,000 and £60,000).
Eligibility Criteria
Projects must:
- provide services that will make a significant positive difference to poor people in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa;
- be effectively linked to local and/or national policy makers, with a view to making a significant contribution to wider public policy and practice;
- be hard to fund from the many other sources of funding available for development activity;
- be delivered by organisations and managers that have demonstrated highly effective leadership;
- be run by a UK-registered NGO with income of less than £5m or by organisations that are the partners of a UK-registered NGO of any size.
Other criteria
- Strong leadership
- Narrow focus
- A compelling, realistic analysis of the issues addressed
- Practical solutions to those issues
- Hard to fund from other sources
- Where our limited funds can make a real difference
- Run by organisations with annual income of less than £5 million
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit applications electronically via email.
Eligible Country: UK
For more information, please visit Joffe Charitable Trust Small Grants Programme.