Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust’s Rights and Justice Grant Programme in UK

Deadline: 25 March 2019

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 human rights and their enforcement in the UK
- JRCT welcomes applications for:
  - policy advocacy and campaigning to protect and promote human rights for the most vulnerable
  - holding government and public bodies to account for their implementation of human rights commitments
  - work to build public support for human rights, particularly amongst more sceptical audiences and in communities disconnected from political power and influence
  - new voices in the human rights sphere and work to create connections between human rights and social 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, as well as broader anti-racist work. 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, attitudes and movements that encourage racism and xenophobia.
Promotion of rights and justice for refugees and other migrants by identifying and tackling structures and systems that may deny them their rights
- JRCT welcomes applications to strengthen the ability of refugees and 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 rights
  - promoting access to justice through civil society organisations which spread knowledge of 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.
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.