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Research and innovation for beneficial social change.

The Foundation currently has three grant programmes that support research and innovation for beneficial social change. These are:

• Access to Justice - promotes access to, and understanding of, the civil justice system.
• Child Protection and Family Justice helps to ensure that the legal and institutional framework is best adapted to meet the needs of children and families.
• Open Door - for projects that advance social well being, but lie outside our main programme areas.

Grants are mainly for research (usually carried out in universities or independent research institutes) but are also made for practical developments or innovation (often in voluntary sector organisations).

As an independent Foundation, we are well placed to deal with sensitive issues, to challenge fashions and tacit assumptions. We support people with creative ideas to identify change or interventions which will have a practical impact for researchers, policy makers and practitioners. We do not fund the ongoing costs of existing work or services, or research that simply advances knowledge.

The Foundation also has an Education Programme which supports research and development work in specific priority areas. Unsolicited grant proposals are not accepted, but other funding opportunities arise from time to time.

Last Updated Thu, 24 April 2008