Scheme: Strategic Grants
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 is able to offer only a small number of larger strategic grants, which are aimed at raising the effectiveness and profile of key organisations and at encouraging organisational development. The Trust will need to be convinced that funds from other sources, particularly statutory agencies and the European Union, are not available for proposals it receives.
Applications: 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: 3 January 2006, 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. The Trust is VERY UNLIKELY to make grants for: 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
The Rowntree Trust 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
Web: http://www.jrf.org.uk