Funding
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation funds and works in partnership with other organisations to unlock the UK from poverty.
Our work is designed around our outcomes, these are the changes we want to see in our communities and across the UK:
- More people want to solve poverty, understand it and take action.
- More people find a route out of poverty through work.
- More people find a route out of poverty through a better system of social security.
- More people live in a decent, affordable home.
We work to a social change model where we use our resources to fund strategic activity as part of outcome plans designed with JRF. These are long-term plans aimed at tackling the root causes of UK poverty.
We are not a traditional grant-funder so we do not generally respond to speculative proposals, however if you would like a conversation about working with us on one or more of our outcome areas please contact: [email protected]
2019 funded projects
| Organisation | Project Name | Outcome Area |
| 270 Strategies | 270 Strategies - Visit to the UK | Solve Poverty |
| Beehive Films Ltd | Forced Adoption project | Solve Poverty |
| Bright Blue | Attitudes to Scottish Social Security | Social Security |
| Centre For Policy Studies | Rebalancing Britain | Work |
| ComRes | What do people want from Brexit? | Solutions Cross Outcomes |
| Fabian Society | Poverty and social security - the left's agenda for the 2020's | Social Security |
| Faith in Community Scotland | Poverty Truth Community | Solve Poverty |
| Frameworks Institute | Frameworks Support March 2019 - August 2019 | Solve Poverty |
| Hanbury Strategy | Connecting with Low Income Voters | Solve Poverty |
| Heriot-Watt University | Destitution in the UK, 2020 | Solve Poverty |
| Institute of Economic Development | Social value best practices within construction | Work |
| Involve | Co-designing solutions to in-work poverty | Work |
| IPPR Scotland | An Effective Income Supplement: progress towards Scotland’s 2030 child poverty targets | Social Security |
| Jillian Edelstein Photography | Portrait of Britain - Exhibition | Solve Poverty |
| Legatum Institute | Social Metrics Commission - Campaign and Funding Strategy 2019/20 | Solve Poverty |
| London Unemployed Strategies CIC | London Unemployed Strategies expansion | Social Security |
| University of Kent | Voting behaviours of those on low incomes | Solve Poverty |
| National Centre for Social Research | British Social Attitudes income and inequality modules 2019 | Solve Poverty |
| ODI Leeds | Tracking local growth funding in the UK | Work |
| Royal Holloway University | Voting behaviours of those on low incomes | Solve Poverty |
| On Road Media | Talking About Poverty/Poverty in the Media | Solve Poverty |
| Penny Haslam Ltd | Penny Haslam Consultancy Contract Jan - Jun 2019 | Solve Poverty |
| Policy in Practice Ltd | Modelling the effects of the five week wait on household financial resilience: Current impacts and alternative policy solutions | Social Security |
| Prospect Magazine | Rebalancing the UK | Work |
| The Guardian | Guardian & JRF Pitch at Sheffield Doc Fest 2019 | Solve Poverty |
| The Poverty Alliance | Challenge Poverty Week 2019 | Solve Poverty |
| The University of York | Participatory research into the introduction of Universal Credit in Northern Ireland | Solutions Cross Outcomes |
| Trades Union Congress | Unlocking Britain's potential | Corporate - Ideas and Innovation Fund |
| Volunteer Training Company | UK Poverty 2019 - Participatory element | Solve Poverty |
| Zoe Ferguson Ltd | Edinburgh Poverty Commission: independent support to the chair 2019-2020 | Solve Poverty |
Further information
Information for funding applicants
Guidelines and background information for those wishing to respond to a call for proposal.
Information for current funding holders
Guidelines and background information for those currently holding funding.
York Committee
York Committee
The York Committee makes grants to organisations to help improve the quality of life in York, with particular regard for those who are experiencing or affected by poverty and disadvantage.
Funding from other Joseph Rowntree trusts
These two trusts are fully independent from Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
- The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Makes grants for political, campaigning or lobbying purposes.
- The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Makes grants to individuals and to projects seeking the creation of a peaceful world, political equality and social justice.