Types of Grant and Application Process

The Trust has a two stage process of application. The first preliminary stage is to submit an enquiry, using the form below, and e-mailing it to the address indicated on the form.

The enquiry will be considered, and if there is interest in your organisation or project, Trustees may invite you to submit a full application which is stage two in our process.

Trustees make decisions on the full applications at their meetings three times a year, usually in February, June and October.

Most of our grants are for core funding but we also do make grants supporting specific projects. There is no minimum or maximum level for a grant. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis for either one, or three years, and can be renewed following a new application upon invitation.

The Trust may also consider, on an exceptional basis, an Advancement Grant, only to existing grantees, designed to support a major infrastructure step change for an organisation.

Under exceptional circumstances, the trust can also provide Emergency Funds, as a response to a sudden human rights crisis or in order to protect human rights defenders –upon a recommendation by an existing grantee, another funding agency, or a contact in the field.