Climate Change and Displacement People Programme

The JAC Trust awards grants of up to £30,000 to registered non-profit organisations (e.g. charities or social enterprises includes those registered and working outside the UK) that:

-Deliver tangible improvements in the quality of life of the people we work with

• Have a positive impact on the natural environment

• Target one of these groups:

-Forcibly displaced people and their host communities Improving the lives of those forcibly displaced and help protect and restore the natural environment in which they live.

• Returnees and the communities that host them Improving the lives of those who return after displacement and help protect and restore the natural environments of the places they return to.

• People at acute risk of displacement Improving the lives of those at acute risk of displacement in ways that center on protecting or restoring their local environments.

The Trust’s objective is to help forcibly displaced people and their host communities to respond to climate change. They also help those at acute risk of climate related displacement. They fund initiatives that aim to deliver win-win outcomes for both people and planet.

Deadline: See the funder’s website for upcoming deadlines.

Our Funding Criteria

Our objective is to increase the climate resilience of displaced people and their host communities. We do this by funding initiatives that help the two communities to adapt to climate change while also promoting environmental recovery and protection.

We fund initiatives that aim to deliver win-win outcomes for people and planet. All proposals must fulfil all three of the following criteria to be eligible for funding:

• Focus on forcibly displaced people and their host communities,
• Deliver tangible improvements in the quality of life,
• Have a positive impact on the natural environment (protection or restoration).
• Preference will be given to proposals that foster, or already demonstrate, a positive engagement between displaced people and their host communities.

Who we fund

• Registered non-profit organisations (charities, social enterprises).
• Organisations with an annual income of less than £10 million.

What we will not fund

• Individuals
• Emergency Relief
• Research
• The promotion of religious causes
• Core costs alone (but we are happy to pay an appropriate share of core costs)
• Academic research Organisations with an annual income of more than £10 million.