The Bromley Trust’s vision is of a society that treats people humanely and respects their human rights and dignity.
We fund specialist charities that are helping to bring about positive social change through their work with marginalised people in the justice system.
Our Prison Reform grants programme currently focuses on funding charities working to bring about a more humane and effective UK prison system that supports people’s rehabilitation.
Successful applicants will be using the expertise developed through their direct frontline work with people in prison to have a wider impact and help bring about improvements to policy or practice in this area.
Funding priorities
Our grantee partners will be able to:
- Demonstrate that they have a clear intent to bring about wider change, in addition to their service delivery work, and a plan for how they will seek to achieve this
- Work collaboratively with others and have the expertise and ability to influence decision-makers and bring about improvements in policy or practice
- Build meaningful relationships with the people they work with
- Show a commitment to the involvement of the people they are working with in organisational decision-making
- Explain the evidence base for their proposed approach and have a commitment to ongoing learning and reflecting on their impact.
When considering applications of equal merit, we may give priority to those:
- Working with the most marginalised – e.g. people in prison facing additional vulnerabilities or discrimination such as women, children, racially maginalised communities, foreign national prisoners, people who have committed sexual offences, people with disabilities or mental health needs, neurodiverse people and IPP prisoners.
- With limited options to secure other sources of funding.
Additionally we aim to ensure an even spread of grants across our human rights and prison reform grant programmes and will seek to fund work in a range of geographical locations.
Key eligibility criteria
Applicants need to:
- Have a relevant mission and key goals which align with our grant programme
- Be a UK-registered charity
- Have an annual income of between £100k and £1.2m
- Have unrestricted reserves of between one month and one year of annual operating costs
- Be seeking unrestricted funding. We do not fund projects.
We do not fund: individuals, drug / alcohol rehabilitation or housing programmes, organisations solely providing general welfare support, generic mentoring projects, research, or organisations working outside of the UK.
Please make sure you also read our full eligibility criteria before applying to us.