Deadline: 6 March 2020
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) is seeking applications for its Rights and Justice Grant Program.
JRCT is committed to the creation of a world that guarantees equal treatment for all people. It believes that 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 for:
- 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.
- JRCT welcomes applications to strengthen the ability of refugees and migrants to assert and defend their rights through:
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 a clear sense of objectives, and of 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 organisations and to individuals.
- If applicants are based outside the UK and applicants are registered as a charitable organistion in applicants local jurisdiction, applicants may apply for general support if all of their work fits within their published programmes, and the following criteria are also met:
- applicants organisation is governed by an unpaid board
- applicants organisation is not for profit
- applicants organisation’s formal purposes fall within the list of charitable purposes recognised within English law.
For more information, visit https://www.jrct.org.uk/rights-and-justice.