We are a small grant-making trust with specific funding criteria so please do check the information below before you start to complete an application.
What we fund:
- UK-registered charities
- Organisations with an annual turnover of between £100k to £1.2m
- Human Rights work (within our specific grants programme focus)
- Prison Reform work (within our specific grants programme focus)
- Well run organisations that work collaboratively with others.
What we don’t fund:
- Projects (i.e. specific activities within an organisation with a broader remit than our focus)
- Organisations that are not UK registered charities.
- Organisations working outside of the UK
- Service delivery organisations that are not also bringing about wider policy or practice change
- Policy organisations that do not undertake any direct service delivery
- Under Human Rights – charities that do not work with people seeking sanctuary in the UK
- Under Prison Reform – charities that do not work with people in prison in the UK
- Individuals
- General appeals
- Capital projects
- Research
- Work in schools or universities
- Promotion of religion
- International development work
- Disaster relief
- Conflict or post-conflict work
- Drug or alcohol rehabilitation services
- Housing projects
- Domestic abuse organisations
- Law Centres
- Generic mentoring programmes
- Organisations solely providing general welfare support
- Work that is covered by state funding
- Newly established organisations without a full year’s audited or independently examined accounts
- Organisations with no (or very low – i.e. under one month’s) unrestricted reserves
- Organisations which have more than one year’s worth of unrestricted reserves
- Organisations who have made an unsuccessful application to the Trust in the last two years
- We no longer accept applications for environmental projects
You can find more detailed information in our Applicant FAQs section.