Human Rights Grants Programme
The Bromley Trust
The Bromley Trust aims to combat violations of human rights and to help offset man’s inhumanity to man.
Our current Human Rights focus areas are:
Torture & Abuse Support for specialist organisations addressing the needs of people who have experienced torture, slavery, trafficking or sexual violence. We have a particular interest in supporting therapeutic work where this is using proven methodologies and is well evaluated.
Detention Support for organisations campaigning against detention without trial or due process or assisting detainees in UK Immigration Removal Centres.
Human Rights Protection We will also fund a small amount of strategic work to protect human rights in the UK, where there is a strong connection to our current focus areas and it complements the work of our existing grantee portfolio. Applicants should speak to us before applying, and will need to demonstrate that they have the expertise and ability to bring about measurable change.
Please note: Due to our limited resources, we will not fund small organisations working at a local level unless they can demonstrate that they are having a significant regional or national impact on our areas of concern above.
We do not fund: international development work; disaster relief; conflict or post-conflict work; drug or alcohol rehabilitation programmes; housing projects; domestic abuse work; law centres; or organisations working wholly outside of the UK.
- UK registered (or exempt) Charities
- Organisations with an annual turnover of between £100k to £1.5m
- Human Rights work within our specific focus areas. Although some grantees will be working internationally, most of the work we fund will take place within the UK
- Well run organisations that work collaboratively with others.
What we don’t fund:
- Organisations that are not UK registered charities.
- Organisations working entirely outside of the UK
- Small organisations working at a local level unless they are also having a significant regional or - national impact
- Individuals
- General Appeals
- Emergency funding
- Capital Projects
- Academic research
- Promotion of religion
- International development work
- Disaster relief
- Conflict or post-conflict work
- Drug or alcohol rehabilitation services
- Housing projects
- Domestic abuse projects
- Law Centres
- General mentoring programmes
- Criminal Justice projects that do not work in prisons or directly benefit current prisoners
- Newly established organisations without a full year’s audited or independently examined accounts
- Organisations with no (or very low) 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