Scheme: Grants Programme
Category: Trust / Foundation
Keywords: Human rights, peace and reconciliation, anti-racism, Travellers, asylum seekers & refugees, civil liberties
Funding Role: The JRCT was set up in 1904 by Joseph Rowntree, a Quaker businessman, who made his money from producing cocoa and chocolate. The JRCT makes grants for projects which fit with the Trust's concerns. The Trust agrees and publishes its policies, and then invites people to apply for grants. All Trustees are members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). As such, they share a belief in the equal worth of all members of the human race, together with a recognition and appreciation of diversity.
Budget: Grants can range from a few hundred euros to more than €100,000 over 3 years.
Policy: The Trust's programme supports organisations and individuals working to:
promote new ideas to nurture the democratic process, democratic accountability and active citizenship;
foster a culture of equality and human rights and monitor the government's record in implementing internationally recognised standards in human rights;
promote dialogue, understanding and co-operation across religious, racism and political divides, celebrate difference and challenge sectarianism;
safeguard the rights and address the needs of minorities including Travellers and the emerging communities of refugees and asylum seekers and promote concepts of pluralism and racial justice with policy shapers, decision makers, opinion formers;
encourage accountability, openness and responsiveness in government, government agencies and the civil service;
address issues of poverty, inequality and social exclusion in areas where there is little community infrastructure and support those who campaign to make these issues a priority of government programmes and policies;
address contentious issues and develop new thinking on how to resolve these;
promote non-violence and sponsor creative ways to handle conflict; explore new ideas about the future social, economic and political development of the island - north and south.
Applications: You are strongly advised to consult the Trust’s detailed guidelines on how to apply. You must complete a registration form available on-line or from the office. Set out your proposal on no more than 4 pages. The budget can be on an additional page. Applications can be sent by post OR by email. The fund does not accept applications by fax. It is extremely helpful if applications arrive well before the deadline whenever possible.
Closing Date: Next deadlines are: 10 April 2006, 4 September 2006.
Exclusions: Personal support of individuals in need; educational bursaries; travel or adventure projects; medical research; building, buying or repairing buildings, business development or job creation, general appeals, providing care for elderly people, children, people with learning difficulties, people with physical disabilities, or people using mental health services; work which has already been done; work in larger, older national charities which have an established constituency of supporters; work in mainstream education; academic research, except as an integral part of policy and campaigning work that is central to the Trust's area of interest; work on housing or homelessness; the arts except where a project is specifically concerned with issues of interest to the Trust; work which the Trust believes should be funded from statutory sources, work which tries to make a problem easier to live with, rather than getting to the root of it.
Cross-Border Relevance
JRCT will consider cross-border projects for funding that fall within the policy areas listed above. The exclusions are important to note.
Address: The Garden House, Water End, York Y030 6WQ, UK
Tel:ROI/NI 00 44 1904 627810
Email: info@jrct.org.uk applications@jrct.org.uk (completed applications)
Web: http://www.jrct.org.uk