Our Funding & Finances
As an independent charity, BIHR is not part of, nor receives direct government funding. We rely instead on three main sources of support:
Grants from Trusts and Foundations and others to support our charitable work. These are a usually a combination of unrestricted grants that support our core work and organisation, and restricted grants for specific projects.
Income earned from our training and from our programmes work with public bodies that have duties to respect, protect, and fulfil people's human rights.
Donations from individuals and those who care about our human rights, which whilst modest we hope to grow.
Our current grant funders include
Activities with our funders include:
Supporting discussions on the current political debates about the future of our Human Rights Act, and what actions the voluntary sector can take.
Sharing evidence of change through human rights practice with voluntary and public sector groups.
Supporting grantee networking including communities of practice, roundtables, and action-planning.
Recent former funders
In addition to our current funders, we are grateful for the support of our recent former funders, who include:
John Ellerman Foundation
The Three Guineas Trust
Comic Relief (Tech vs Abuse)
The Fore RAFT fund
The Legal Education Foundation (now LEF)
The People's Postcode Lottery Trust (Small Grants)
The Allen & Overy Foundation
NHS England Public Participation Community Grant Scheme
The Law Society Charity
Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust
The Oak Foundation
The Thomas Paine Initiative (now closed)
