Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: Seeking Applications for Northern Ireland Programme

Deadline: 25 March 2019

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is seeking applications for its Northern Ireland Grant Programme that aims to fund work which will contribute to the ongoing transformation of the Northern Ireland conflict.

Funding Priorities

JRCT is interested in funding work which:

addresses the root causes of violence and injustice, rather than alleviating symptoms
cannot be funded from other sources
is likely to make a long-term, strategic difference.

Priority Areas

Strengthening human rights and equality: This includes work to secure and monitor implementation of human rights commitments by the state, work which strengthens a culture of human rights, as well as new initiatives on economic, social and cultural rights.
Supporting inclusive, non-sectarian and participatory politics: This includes initiatives which strengthen the voices of marginalised groups in public policy-making, foster positive, non-violent approaches to expressing and managing political difference and which cultivate the independence of the community and voluntary sectors.
Supporting processes of demilitarisation: This includes initiatives which encourage groups engaged in armed struggle to take steps towards exclusively non-violent strategies and to engage in comprehensive processes of transition to civilian life.
Dealing with the past: The Trust is concerned primarily with work that promotes a shared understanding of the root causes of past violence, or which encourages government to implement initiatives to address the legacy of violence at a societal level.

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.
If applicants are based outside the UK and they are registered as a charitable organisation in their local jurisdiction, they may apply for general support if all of their work fits within their published programmes, and the following criteria are also met:
- applicant’s organisation is governed by an upaid board
- applicant’s organisation is not for profit
- applicant’s organisation’s formal purposes fall within the list of charitable purposes recognised within English law.