Deadline: 9 February 2018
The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation (PPCF) is currently accepting applications for its grant program with an aim to contribute to the development of a just society based on a commitment to nonviolence and environmental sustainability.
The priority is to address systemic threats by seeking to change policy and attitudes at a national or European level.
Priority Areas
- Peace and Sustainable Security: Support the development of ways of resolving violent conflicts peacefully, and of addressing their underlying causes.
- Environmental Sustainability: Support work that addresses the pressures and conditions that risk global environmental breakdown.
Grant Information
The Foundation usually gives grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 per year, for up to three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Foundation only supports practical projects when they are clearly of a pioneering nature, with potential for influencing UK national policy.
- Foundation is a UK based grant giving charity and they support the work of UK registered charitable NGOs.
- Foundation also supports organisations or projects that are not UK registered charities if they can indicate a UK registered charity that is able to receive funds on their behalf.
Funding Exclusions
Foundation does not fund:
- organisations that are large
- organisations that are outside UK (unless they are linked with a UK registered charity and doing work of international focus)
- work outside the UK (unless it is of international focus)
- grants to individuals
- travel bursaries (including overseas placements and expeditions)
- study
- academic research
- capital projects (e.g. building projects or purchase of nature reserves)
- community or local practical projects (except innovative projects for widespread application)
- youth work, youth training and youth camps
- environmental/ ecological conservation
- international agencies and overseas appeals
- general appeals
- human rights work (except where it relates to peace and environmental sustainability).
- community mediation and crime related work
How to Apply
Applicants must download the application form via given website.
For more information, please visit PPCF Grants.