JRCT's Sustainable Future Programme Reopens for Applications

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) is once again accepting applications to this programme which has an overall focus on developing and promoting sustainable, low-carbon alternatives to the current consumerist and growth-based paradigm.

Grants of no set amount are available for work in the following areas:

Better economics - for work that:

• Explores and promotes ways that wellbeing and sustainability could be placed at the heart of public policy, rather than traditional forms of economic growth.
• Explores and promotes mechanisms that could better align business and investor behaviour with environmental sustainability and the long-term public interest.
• Researches and develops innovations and new practical models of enterprise that can be embedded within community practice.
• Challenges future investment in, or subsidies for, fossil fuels.

Beyond consumerism - for:

• Campaigns, initiatives and mechanisms which encourage radical, large scale shifts in behaviour and culture away from consumerism towards more sustainable ways of living and using resources.
• Exploration of initiatives and models which promote positive alternatives to consumerism for a more fulfilled life.
• Work which engages people individually and collectively in holistic and value-led approaches to transformed behaviour and lifestyle, as an alternative to consumerism.

New voices - for:

• Campaigns and movements that give marginalised or under-represented groups a voice on issues of environmental and economic justice.
• Initiatives that encourage organisations from outside the traditional environmental field to get involved in environmental justice.
• Networks that link and support local environmental justice groups.
• The replication of innovative local projects regionally or nationally.

It is not necessary to be a registered charity to apply to the Trust, however, the Trust can only support work which is legally charitable as defined in UK law. Applicants should be undertaking work at a national level.

Groups who have not registered on the JRCT grants management system need to do so by 17 February 2025 in order to submit an application for the current round.

The deadline for applications is 3 March 2025 (12pm).

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