Kanglungan
A Rights and Justice grantee
We seek to strengthen work on the rights of racial and religious minorities, migrants and refugees, to hold governments to account and to support those advocating with and for these communities.
We support long-term work to achieve these aims, including policy and legislative change as well as more transformational approaches. We recognise that our three funding strands are interconnected and often overlapping.
We welcome applications for work that protects and promotes human rights in the UK, particularly for people and communities facing inequality and marginalisation.
We do fund work addressing racism, and work relating to reigion and belief.
We do not fund work focused on individual cases under specific Convention rights, or work focused on discrimination or under-representation under the Equality Act.
We welcome applications from organisations working to tackle racial and religious injustice affecting marginalised communities, including Muslim communities, Roma, Gypsy and Traveller communities, and other groups experiencing racism and exclusion.
We particularly welcome approaches that are community-led, participatory and grounded in the lived experience of the communities affected.
We particularly welcome applications from organisations led by, and for refugees and migrants, that work to assert and defend their rights by identifying and challenging the structures and systems that may deny them.
Examples of types of work we fund include (but is not limited to) charitable work such as:
JRCT is committed to supporting practices that strengthen care, safety, wellbeing, resilience and sustainability for individuals, organisations and movements working on rights and justice.
We encourage all applicants, particularly grassroots groups and those with lived experience of the issues they work on, to include wellbeing, safety and sustainability costs within their funding requests.
We particularly welcome work that centres collective care and resilience as part of strategies to build long-term collective power and support communities most affected by systemic oppression.
This may include:
• cultural, holistic, somatic, and wellbeing practices embedded within organising and project work• trauma-informed and healing centred training for staff, organisers and volunteers• approaches that embed accessibility and disability justice in organisational practice and political education• reflective practice, learning spaces and peer support structures• conflict resolution, mediation and accountability approaches, including transformative justice practices• strategies to address burnout, trauma and exhaustion among activists and community members• training on digital and physical safety and security practices• development of sustainable organisational infrastructure, culture and policies that support long-term wellbeing and resilience
Our second open round for this year will focus on organisations/groups working to challenge the harms of immigration detention and deportation in the UK. We recognise immigration detention as statecraft within the immigration detention estate, hostile environment policies coalescing with corporate profit exacerbate state violence and precarity disproportionately impacting the most marginalised communities.
This call seeks to support work that not only mitigates harm but challenges the systems that produce it. We recognise the ecology of organisations working in the immigration detention and deportation space. Of these, we are expecting to fund two to five new groups with grants between £20,000-80,000 for 1-3 years.
We are particularly interested in receiving applications from grassroots organisations and networks working with grassroots projects that:
Applications from returning grantees will continue to be assessed based on their current area of work rather than this focus area. If you are a returning grantee whose grant ends in 2026 please contact your current grant lead at JRCT who can advise about the best grant round to apply to in 2026.
The Rights and Justice Programme remains open to applications to both new applicants and returning grantees across all our stated priority areas in 2026.
Our next grant round will close in September 2026.
Applications from returning grantees will be assessed based on their current area of work. If you are a returning grantee whose grant ends in 2026, please contact your current grant lead at JRCT.
New applicants need to complete the expression of interest form below by Monday 13 July (10am). A PDF copy of the full form can also be viewed here. Please note that submissions can only be accepted through the online form. This will help us to understand your work and assess whether it aligns with our funding priorities. We will then review all submissions and let you know whether you are being invited to submit a full application by Monday 3 August. Please note that new applicants will not be able to apply in September unless they have completed this stage.
The Rights & Justice team is holding a webinar for potential applicants prior to the expression of interest deadline. In this session the team will share information about the programme's funding priorities, what we do and don't fund, when and how to apply (including information about the new EOI stage), and tips for submitting a strong application. There will also be a chance to ask questions of the team.
Register for the session below:
Tuesday 23 June, 12-1pm (UK time) - register here.
If you are a returning grantee whose grant ends in 2026, you do not need to attend the webinar. Please contact your current grant lead at JRCT instead.
The Trust primarily focuses on work at a national level, and supports work at a European level only where it has direct relevance to communities living in the UK.
Whilst our main focus is national advocacy and campaigning, we are also open to applications that seek to achieve structural change at local or regional levels of policy-making, where applicants can clearly demonstrate wider national or systemic significance.
Across all our funding, we prioritise supporting organisations and individuals with direct experience of racism and systemic oppression.
Priority will be given to organisations or groups that may struggle to find funding elsewhere. We are unable to fund service provision alongside the exclusions that are listed in the next section, below. However, we recognise that meaningful change requires both immediate support and long-term transformation, and we welcome proposals that engage across this spectrum.
We are not able to fund all types of activity. The following types of work are not eligible for support.
• work focused primarily on improving relationships between communities, rather than addressing the structural causes of injustice• service delivery activities or the provision of training as a standalone offer
Please also read the JRCT eligibility page for full details.
For further information please see when to apply.
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"Education, not segregation."
Challenging policy and practice in immigration detention