The Bromley Trust is now open for applications. Find out more about our new strategy here.

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.

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