Deadline: 4 December 2017
The JRCT’s Rights and Justice Grant Program is committed to the creation of a world that guarantees equal treatment for all people. It believes that equality and human rights play a vital role in protecting the most vulnerable and in turn benefit the whole of society.
Funding Priorities
- Protection and promotion of equality and human rights and their enforcement in the UK: JRCT welcomes applications for:
- policy advocacy and campaigning to protect and promote equality and human rights for the most vulnerable
- the provision of accurate information and analysis about human rights and equality to inform decision-makers and the wider public
- holding government and public bodies to account for their implementation of equalities and human rights commitments
- awareness raising of equality and human rights amongst the broader public
- work to develop new voices in the human rights and equality sphere and to create connections between human rights and economic justice issues.
- Promoting rights and justice for minorities who face the most severe forms of racism: JRCT welcomes applications from civil society organisations that tackle injustices faced by racial and religious minorities, in particular, by Muslim communities, Roma, Gypsies and Travellers across Europe. This includes:
- monitoring and advocacy for legislation and policies to promote rights for these communities
- activities to promote political empowerment, in particular, amongst and led by women within these communities
- efforts to build solidarity amongst advocacy organisations and between advocacy organisations and wider civil society
- work to challenge ideologies and movements that encourage racism and xenophobia and tackle attitudes and policies that deny equal treatment for vulnerable minorities.
- Promotion of rights and justice for refugees and other migrants by identifying and tackling root causes, structures and systems that may deny them their rights: JRCT welcomes applications to strengthen the ability of migrants to assert and defend their rights through:
- support for alliance building and grassroots organisation, including engagement with non-traditional allies
- advocacy and campaigning to prevent the abuse of migrants’ rights
- promoting access to justice through civil society organisations which spread knowledge of migrants’ rights and judicial procedures and embed advances in the enforcement of rights.
Eligibility Criteria
- JRCT is interested in funding work which:
- is about removing problems through radical solutions, and not simply about making problems easier to live with
- has clear sense of objectives, and how to achieve them
- is innovative and imaginative
- and where the grant has a good chance of making a difference
- Within its areas of interest, the trust makes grants to a range of range of organisations and to individuals.
- An organisation may apply is it is registered, excepted or exempt charity based within any of the jurisdictions of the UK and all their work fits within the published programmes.
- The charitable organisation registered in local jurisdiction outside UK can apply for general support.
How to Apply
- Interested applicants must submit the following documents:
- Narrative proposal
- Budgets Accounts
- Governing document (non-charities only)
- Closing report (existing grantees only)
- Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: United Kingdom
For more information, please visit Rights and Justice Program.