Jephcott Charitable Trust
/OVERVIEW: The Jephcott Charitable Trust supports a wide range of global health, development and environmental projects.
IP TAKE: Applying charitable organizations must be registered with their respective governing bodies before being eligible for a Jephcott grant. This is an open-minded, accessible funder in a niche area of funding. Many of its grantees are small- and medium-sized organizations working with needy communities in the developing world. Both health and education grantmaking areas name reproductive health education as an area of interest, but many other progressive causes have also received recent attention from this grantmaker.
PROFILE: The Jephcott Charitable Trust (JCT) is a U.K.-based funder established in 1965 by Sir Harry Jephcott, “pharmaceutical chemist and industrialist.” The trust broadly makes grants to organizations that “will make a difference,” and states that “preference will be given to charities or projects which are having difficulty getting started, or raising funds from other sources.” JCTs current grantmaking programs are environment, health and education.
Grants for Global Health
The trust’s Health program works broadly to “projects which benefit, improve and advance the health, wellbeing and life chances of people, communities and their environments across the world.” Recent funding has prioritized intiatives to upscale health infrastructure, including grants for the purchase of updated equipment, the renovation of existing buildings and the professional development of healthcare professionals. The foundation has also expressed an interest in WASH initiatives in developing nations around the world. Recent grantees include the Phnom Penh Audiology Clinic in Cambodia, Community Action Nepal’s Health Outpost Project and the Milgris Trust, which used funding for a reproductive health education program in the Samburu region of Kenya.
Grants for Environment, Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Agriculture
The Natural Environment supports “projects involved in the conservation, improvement and regeneration of the natural environment.” In this grantmaking area, the foundation names interests including “environmental awareness, biodiversity, sustainability and initiatives to combat climate change and further carbon capture.” In keeping with its giving across all interest areas, giving targets the developing world, with a number of recent grants supporting sustainable agriculture programs. One recent grant supported sustainable agricultural education programs run by Vision Africa in Kenya. The foundation also supported Makhad, which works to restore traditional orchards belonging to Bedouin families in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
Grants for Education, Global and Economic Development
Jephcott’s Education funding works to support formal education, career development and health and family planning programs for people of all ages in across the developing world. In Uganda, the foundation has given to the Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund for the renovation of a primary school in Bugulumbya. Anther grantee, India’s Lotus Flower, used funding to build a residential school for homeless children living along the train lines of Guwahati Assam.
Preserving the natural environment certainly plays a part in the global development landscape, especially when it comes to the protection of indigenous peoples' land and livelihoods; however, grant seekers should, for the most part, stick to Jephcott’s three other grantmaking priorities when applying for funding. Its education-related grantmaking centers on supporting access to education and vocational programs that help increase people’s chances of finding jobs. The trust’s Population Control program supports educational projects related to limiting “excessive growth in population,” and the trust’s Health programs awards grants to a variety of global healthcare projects.
Important Grant Details:
Grant amounts are generally modest in size, often ranging from from £2,000 to £10,000 or around $2,500 to $13,000 USD. JCT awards grants of up to £20,000 for exceptional cases. The trust accepts applications via a form that is posted on its website. The trustees typically meet twice a year in April and October to review submissions. To learn more about the projects Jephcott supports and at what level, explore its list of current and past projects.
Jephcott does not specify whether it prioritizes projects that benefit people living in developing countries. However, its grantee list suggests the fund’s proclivity for supporting projects in some of the most underdeveloped countries in the world. The trust does not list specific geographic restrictions in its grantmaking.
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