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 people who are in need of human rights protection in the UK.
Our Human Rights grants programme currently focuses on funding charities working to protect the dignity and rights of people seeking sanctuary (refugees and asylum seekers) in the UK.
Successful applicants will be using the expertise developed through their direct frontline work with people seeking sanctuary to have a wider impact and help bring about improvements to policy or practice in this area.
We have a particular interest in supporting work around immigration detention.
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 seeking sanctuary who are torture or trafficking survivors, women, children, or in detention, quasi-detention or temporary accommodation
- 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: international development work; disaster relief; conflict or post-conflict work; housing projects; domestic abuse work; law centres; organisations solely providing general welfare support; individuals; work in schools or universities; research; or organisations working outside of the UK.
Please make sure you also read our full eligibility criteria before applying to us.