Deadline: 2-Sep-22
The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation (PPCF) Grant Programme is now open to contribute to the development of a just society based on a commitment to nonviolence and environmental sustainability.
PPCF priority is to address systemic threats by seeking to change policy and attitudes at a national, European or international level. They do this through supporting projects that seek to develop radical alternatives to current economic and social structures, that influence values and attitudes whilst promoting equity and social justice. They recognise that the vision cannot be achieved unless it is pursued in ways that simultaneously address the chronic and often hateful social and racial injustice in society.
Funding Areas
- Peace and Sustainable Security: PPCF will support work that addresses the underlying causes of violent conflict, develops ways to prevent and resolve conflict and promotes human security.
- Environmental Sustainability: PPCF will support work that addresses the pressures and conditions that contribute to climate change and global environmental breakdown.
- The intersection between the two: PPCF strongly believe that the two funding areas are inextricably linked, so are particularly interested in supporting work that reflects the interconnectedness of the issues.
Focus Areas
- Within the funding areas of peace and sustainable security and environmental sustainability, they focus the grant-giving in a number of ways –
- Radical Thinking and Solutions: WPPCF support alternative, creative thinking and radical solutions to address the problems they face, at scale and pace
- Supporting Movements: PPCF support the movements holding power to account and that advocate and press for the necessary changes
- Transformational System Change: PPCF support those bringing about transformational policy and system change to achieve a just society based on a commitment to nonviolence and environmental sustainability
Funding Information
PPCF usually give grants of between £50,000 and £150,000 per year, for up to three years. They usually support organisations for whom this would represent between 5% and 50% of their annual income (organisations with an annual income of between £100,000 and £3,000,000 approximately).
Eligibility Criteria
- UK based charities and non-governmental organisations undertaking charitable activity
- PPCF is a UK based grant giving charity. They support the work of UK charities and NGOs undertaking work that is charitable in nature.
- PPCF also support organisations or projects that are not UK based if they are undertaking work that is international in focus and charitable in nature. In those circumstances they would expect them to partner with a UK registered charity that is able to receive funds on their behalf.
Exclusions
PPCF does not fund:
- organisations that are very large
- organisations that are outside UK (unless they are doing work of international focus)
- work outside the UK (unless it is of international focus)
- grants to individuals
- travel bursaries (including overseas placements & 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, criminal or restorative justice work
For more information, visit https://www.polden-puckham.org.uk/how-to-apply-report