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update NEWS AND GRANTS July 2016 People at JRCT
NEWS
Celia McKeon has recently been awarded an exciting fellowship opportunity by the Social Change Initiative. We are very sad that she will be leaving the Trust after nearly eight years. Celia will continue with her current role of Assistant Trust Secretary on a full time basis until the end of August and then will work two days a week until November, managing our Northern Ireland programme. We will greatly miss Celia’s contribution to the grants programmes and work of the Trust as a whole. We are delighted that Dave Magee will be joining the Trust as our new Assistant Trust Secretary in October. Dave is currently programme officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Belfast. He brings a wealth of community experience, and has also taught Peacemaking for the School of Open Learning at Queen’s University, Belfast. We look forward to welcoming Dave to the Trust. More detail will be sent to relevant grantees about interim arrangements. Janet Slade will be sitting in on trust business from September, with a view to becoming a trustee. Janet is a chartered accountant with many years’ experience of working with charities and other not-for-profit organisations at Slade and Cooper. She is a former Chair of the Ecology Building Society and has also worked as a policy accountant at the Charity Commission.
Charity Commission report on JRCT finally published In September 2013, the Charity Commission opened an operational compliance case in respect of JRCT’s funding of Cage and in May this year it published its final report. The Charity Commission rigorously scrutinised grants made by the Trust to Cage in 2007, 2008 and 2011, in order to ensure that we had acted within our responsibilities as a charitable trust. The Commission’s long and detailed report makes it clear that our trustees acted in good faith, and that the grants were made to further our charitable purposes. There is no evidence that any funds have been misused. We are pleased that the Charity Commission’s enquiries have now finally concluded and that no further regulatory action is planned. Some of the media coverage of this past funding has been very hostile. Most recently, the Daily Mail published an article attacking long-time JRCT grantee Operation Black Vote, and in an early edition used a headline that referred to JRCT as ‘pro-terrorist’. The Trust submitted a complaint to IPSO that resulted in a clarification and apology. The Trust would like to thank everyone who has supported us over the past two and a half years. The solidarity and backing of so many individuals and groups has meant a great deal to us.
Contact us Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, The Garden House, Water End, York Y030 6WQ t +44 (0)1904 627810 f +44 (0)1904 651990 www.jrct.org.uk E-mail protocol:
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GRANTS
The following grants were approved at the July 2016 Trust board meeting:
PEACE & SECURITY
POWER & ACCOUNTABILITY
UK Citizens Online Democracy (mySociety) www.mysociety.org
Nuclear Information Service www.nuclearinfo.org
Crick Centre, University of Sheffield
£159,000 36 months Nuclear Information Networking project
www.crickcentre.org
Situations
InfluenceMap CIC
www.situations.org.uk
£26,000 15 months Project costs for engagement and events programme
Verification Research, Training and Information Centre www.vertic.org
£105,000 36 months Core costs
War Resisters’ International www.wri-irg.org
£133,980 36 months The Right to Refuse to Kill programme
£50,000 12 months Designing for Democracy
www.influencemap.org
£50,000 12 months EU ETS and EU transport policy
Justin Moore £9,297 12 months The UK’s impact on poorer countries
Scottish PEN www.scottishpen.org
£40,000 24 months Core costs
St Chad’s College, Durham University
£20,000 12 months Expanding the reach and inclusion of mySociety’s UK websites
RIGHTS & JUSTICE Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights www.crer.org.uk
£108,000 36 months Parliamentary Officer
Global Dialogue www.global-dialogue.eu
£20,000 24 months Migration Exchange
RightsInfo www.rightsinfo.org
£120,000 36 months Core costs
www.stchads.ac.uk/research
£40,000 12 months Who runs the North East now?
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SUSTAINABLE FUTURE BioRegional www.bioregional.com
£76,100 20 months One Planet Affordable Living
Coal Action Network www.coalaction.org.uk
£36,356 24 months Ditch Coal
The Comms Lab www.thecommslab.com
£28,000 9 months Leading the Future programme
Culture Beyond Oil www.bp-or-not-bp.org
£30,000 12 months Campaigning for a Culture Beyond Oil
Incredible Edible Ltd www.incredibleedible.org.uk
£60,000 24 months Incredible Spreadible development phase
July 2016 NORTHERN IRELAND
Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility www.eccr.org.uk
Centre for Democracy & Peace Building www.democracyandpeace.org
£15,000 Single grant EU Debate NI and £24,667 5 months EU Debate NI Phase II
Conflict Resolution Services (Ireland) £120,200 24 months Facilitating Dialogue
Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities www.nicem.org.uk
£50,000 12 months Emergency core costs
CROSSCUTTING British Muslims for Secular Democracy www.bmsd.org.uk
£101,500 36 months Core costs
£15,000 36 months Core costs
Jubilee Debt Campaign www.jubileedebt.org.uk
£70,000 24 months The Economic Justice project
Nourish Scotland www.nourishscotland.org
£90,000 36 months Right to Food advocacy
OTHER GRANTS Quaker Social Action www.quakersocialaction.org.uk
£26,664 24 months Fair Funerals Campaign
The Rowntree Society www.rowntreesociety.org.uk
£22,500 36 months Core costs
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