Deadline: 3-Feb-23
The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation (PPCF) is seeking applications for its Grant Programme that contributes 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.
Current Focus and Priorities
- They understand that their funding remit is very broad and that there is a great deal of very important and necessary work being undertaken that fits within it. As a small foundation they can only fund a small selection of that work. They have observed that their current stable of grantees – those who have received funding from Polden-Puckham as part of their strategic spend down – are heavily weighted towards the environmental sustainability funding strand, albeit with a strong underlying analysis of the interconnected nature of peace and security and environmental sustainability.
- For that reason, given their particular interest in work at the intersection of these two areas, trustees are keen to encourage applications from those working on peace and sustainable security who have a deep understanding of how the dual climate and biodiversity crises intersects with conflict prevention and peace building. Polden-Puckham wishes to support the radical thinking and transformative solutions needed to achieve a just society based on a commitment to non-violence and environmental sustainability and believe that the peace sector has a vital role to play.
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
- They 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
- They support those bringing about transformational policy and system change to achieve a just society based on a commitment to nonviolence and environmental sustainability
- UK based charities and non-governmental organisations undertaking charitable activity
- They are a UK based grant giving charity. They support the work of UK charities and NGOs undertaking work that is charitable in nature.
- They 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
- They do 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 PPCF.