The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation (PPCF), which has its roots in the Quaker movement, supports projects that change values and attitudes, promote equity and social justice, and develop radical alternatives to economic and social structures. Areas of specific interest are peace issues and environmental sustainability.
Specifically, the Foundation will provide revenue funding for projects in the fields of:
o Environmental Sustainability - the Foundation supports work that addresses the pressures and conditions that contribute to global environmental breakdown.
o Peace and Sustainable Security - the Foundation supports work that addresses the underlying causes of violent conflict and the development of ways to prevent and resolve conflict and promote human security, and/or
o The intersection between environmental sustainability and peace and sustainable security - the Foundation is especially interested in supporting work that reflects the interconnectedness of environmental sustainability and peace and sustainable security.
Please note that the Foundation has announced that it will spend the next 5 years winding down its operation, with a view to closing in 2028. Because of this, it is likely to award fewer, albeit larger. grants.
Grants of between £50,000 and £150,000 over 3 years (i.e. up to £50,000 per year, although grants of this size are rarely awarded) are available to applicants that are seeking to influence attitudes, values and policies and a UK-wide or international level. Organisations that are not UK-based will be required to partner with a UK registered charity in order to apply.
The Foundation is likely to prioritise applications from UK organisations that:
o Are led by young people.
o Are made by small, pioneering headquarters organisations with a bold vision that reflects a strong values-base, underpinning their work, governance and financial affairs, and
o Have an intersectional justice approach to their work and their practice.
Further information, guidelines and an application form, which can be downloaded and should be returned by email, is available on the Foundation’s website. However, prior to applying, eligible organisations are strongly advised to discuss their project with the Trust Secretary, Christine Oliver.
The Spring 2023 application deadline for submission of a Concept Note is midnight on Friday 3rd February 2023. Applicants who are invited to submit a full application following consideration of their Concept Note will be informed by close of business on 17th February 2023.
Applicants are expected to be informed of the outcome of their full application by 26th May 2023.
