JAC TRUST — grant history
Latest income
£188k
Grants listed (FY2025)
23
Listed grants total
£1.0m
Accounts grants total
£1.0m
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: We don’t operate an open fund so please don’t spend valuable time writing to us for funding because we are unable to respond to requests.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- General Charitable Purposes
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Disability
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Bangladesh
- India
- Throughout England
- Scotland
- Cameroon
- Nepal
- Northern Ireland
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | RuWCED | — | £150k |
| new | RE-ALLIANCE | — | £149k |
| new | REDR UK | — | £92k |
| new | Sengwer of Embobut CBO | — | £90k |
| new | Cohere | — | £90k |
| new | KOWYN | — | £75k |
| new | Live in Green | — | £50k |
| new | Conflicts Forum | — | £20k |
| up | SOMERSET WILDLANDS | £2k | £270k |
| up | PORA ZIMBABWE | £2k | £15k |
| down | In But Free | £65k | £2k |
| down | Street Theatre Workshop | £3k | £2k |
| not listed | Grameen Virunga/ Virunga Foundation | £75k | — |
| not listed | Fanm Limye Association | £72k | — |
| not listed | Eco Brixs UK | £66k | — |
| not listed | Enhanced Rural Self-Help Association | £60k | — |
| not listed | Rural Environment & Development Organization | £60k | — |
| not listed | Organisation for Community Action, Uganda | £43k | — |
| not listed | International Friends of Khwendo Kor | £15k | — |
| not listed | Felix London | £15k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somerset Wildlands | FY2025 | £270k | Gifting of land valued at £270,000 |
| RuWCED | FY2025 | £150k | Green Resilience: Community-Based Agroecology for IDP and host community Food Sovereignty in Bamenda-Cameroon |
| Re-Alliance | FY2025 | £149k | Upscaling and Influencing: Phase 2 of the Guidelines Project on Community led Regenerative Settlements |
| RedR UK | FY2025 | £92k | Enhancing Climate Resilience within Ugandan Refugee Settlements |
| Sengwer of Embobut CBO | FY2025 | £90k | Embobut Ecosystem Restoration and Integrated Livelihoods Improvement for Climate Resilience |
| Cohere | FY2025 | £90k | Supporting Refugee Leaders to Build Climate Resilience and Sustainable Futures |
| KOWYN | FY2025 | £75k | From Forest to Farm: Strengthening Food Systems, Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage for Ogiek Indigenous People In Kenya |
| Live in Green | FY2025 | £50k | Advancing Clean Cooking & Social Cohesion through a Circular Green Enterprise Model in Kyaka II |
| Conflicts Forum | FY2025 | £20k | Peacebuilding in the Middle East |
| PORA Zimbabwe | FY2025 | £15k | Strengthening and supporting the Adult Rape Clinic in Gokwe District |
| Seed of Hope C.I.C. | FY2025 | £10k | To create a Food Forest on Three Acre Wood, Somerset |
| In But Free | FY2025 | £2k | Uplift |
| Friends of Khwendo Kor | FY2025 | £2k | Emergency flood response in Pakistan |
| Local Futures | FY2025 | £2k | Programme for revitalisation of cultural and biological diversity |
| Minak led Organisation | FY2025 | £2k | Reimagining the Levels |
| Empowering women through mushroom farming in Nakivale Refugee Settlement. | FY2025 | £2k | |
| Tree planting on Clark’s Fields | FY2025 | £2k | |
| Rights of Women | FY2025 | £2k | Pro bono legal advice for women in London |
| Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts | FY2025 | £2k | Towards the purchase of the Rothbury Estate, Northumberland |
| Rukhsana Khan Foundation | FY2025 | £2k | London foodbank and breakfast club |
| Street Theatre Workshop | FY2025 | £2k | Supporting community projects in the West Bank |
| St Margaret’s Hospice | FY2025 | £2k | Community and Hospice Care in Somerset |
| Environmental Funders Network | FY2025 | £2k | Annual contribution |
| Grameen Virunga/ Virunga Foundation | FY2024 | £75k | Promoting Climate-Smart Agriculture among Refugees in Zambia |
| Fanm Limye Association | FY2024 | £72k | Welcoming IDPs into 6 rural communes of Haiti |
| Eco Brixs UK | FY2024 | £66k | Recycling and Job Creation: expanding Eco Brixs to the Nakivale Refugee Settlement |
| In But Free | FY2024 | £65k | Providing innovative microloans to displaced communities in Goma for poverty reduction, small business development and decreased deforestation in Virunga National Park |
| Enhanced Rural Self-Help Association | FY2024 | £60k | Enhancing resilience through Climate-Smart Livelihoods in Efratana Gidim Woreda |
| Rural Environment & Development Organization | FY2024 | £60k | Strengthening Mahama refugees and host community’s capacity on low carbon technologies |
| Organisation for Community Action, Uganda | FY2024 | £43k | Continue and complete work started in 2023 under a project with the International Refugee Trust |
| International Friends of Khwendo Kor | FY2024 | £15k | Enhancing the learning environment of Druk Padma Karpo School, Ladakh, India. |
| The Felix Project | FY2024 | £15k | Live to Love Kitchen employability programme for homeless people run by a London food charity |
| Street Theatre Workshop | FY2024 | £3k | Emergency funds for Palestinian community project |
| RCD Foundation | FY2024 | £2k | Brain Cancer charity |
| Environmental Funders Network | FY2024 | £2k | Annual donation to EFN |
| SAFE Kenya | FY2024 | £2k | Ending FGM/C in the Loita Hills, Kenya |
| Somerset Wildlands | FY2024 | £2k | Designing a 3 acre food forest |
| National Alliance on Mental Illness of NYC | FY2024 | £2k | Mental health charity in New York City |
| The Lunch Club | FY2024 | £2k | Free healthy lunches for those in need in Streatham |
| Marias Animal Shelter | FY2024 | £2k | Pet rehoming centre |
| PORA Zimbabwe | FY2024 | £2k | Adult Rape Clinic in Zimbabwe |
| The Barn Owl Trust | FY2024 | £2k | Barn Owl conservation |
| Alfred Gillet Trust | FY2023 | £200k | Legacy grant towards the capital costs of creating the Shoemakers Museum in Street |
| CHASE Africa | FY2023 | £90k | Re-Alliance |
| CAMGEW | FY2023 | £60k | Building Climate Smart Entrepreneurs in Anglophone Cameroon crisis affected people and their host communities of Magba and Bankim |
| Relief to Development Society (REDESO) | FY2023 | £60k | Natural Environment Protection through Climate Smart Solutions in Refugee Camps and Host Communities in Kigoma Tanzania |
| Shared Action Africa | FY2023 | £60k | Improving human and environmental health and strengthening integration between refugee and host communities around Bidi Bidi refugee settlement |
| YICE | FY2023 | £60k | Building the Resilience of Women headed households to Climate Change while Promoting Sustainable Land Use and Management in Nakivale Refugee Settlement |
| Re-Alliance | FY2023 | £59k | Developing and piloting regenerative approaches to camps and settlements in the light of increased climate and conflict displacement |
| FUNDEPAZ | FY2023 | £58k | Empowerment on Renewable Energies as Restorative Peacebuilding Strategies Colombia |
| SHED | FY2023 | £48k | Enhancing resilience of Rohingya refugee and host communities in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh |
| Afgahnaid | FY2023 | £15k | Inclusive Livelihoods Recovery and Strengthened Resilience of Rural Afghan Women |
| MSF | FY2023 | £15k | Emergency funding for humanitarian work in Gaza |
| International Refugee Trust | FY2023 | £13k | Step-up sustainable agriculture Uganda project in Lira District (top-up) |
| Street Theatre Workshop | FY2023 | £3k | Emergency funds for Palestine community project |
| Animals Asia Foundation | FY2023 | £2k | Rescue of Bile Bears |
| Lewa Wildlife Conservancy | FY2023 | £2k | Nature conservation and community outreach |
| Entheogenesis Australis | FY2023 | £2k | Australian botanical and environmental charity |
| Amasosha Art Advancement | FY2023 | £2k | Supporting local artists from disadvantaged backgrounds in South Africa |
| Overleigh Charitable Trust | FY2023 | £2k | Ash dieback tree works at community land charity |
| Surfers Not Street Children | FY2023 | £2k | Engaging street children in surfing to improve life opportunities in South Africa |
| Larger than Life Fund | FY2023 | £2k | 3D printing replacement joints/limbs for sufferers of Sarcoma making the technology and treatment available to all |
| Anno’s Africa | FY2023 | £2k | Arts programme for underprivileged children in sub-Saharan Africa |
| EASE | FY2023 | £2k | London based charity working with asylum seekers |
| Environmental Funders Network | FY2023 | £2k | Annual membership |
| Ashden Climate Solutions | FY2022 | £60k | Energising Refugee Livelihoods Award |
| Hope for a Better Future | FY2022 | £60k | Improving Livelihood & Environmental Protection Through Provision of Durable Solar Powered Products for IDP and Vulnerable Women in Donga Mantung |
| Papua Partners | FY2022 | £60k | Integrated Development for Internally Displaced Indigenous Communities in West Papua |
| International Refugee Trust | FY2022 | £59k | Step-up sustainable agriculture project in Lira District |
| ForAfrika | FY2022 | £52k | Increasing the resilience of refugees and host communities through climate-smart farming |
| AMOR | FY2022 | £46k | Food for Life Phase 2 |
| Sengwer of Embobut CBO | FY2022 | £45k | Promotion of conservation and restoration of Embobut Forest Ecosystem and Livelihoods |
| The Felix Project | FY2022 | £15k | Reducing food poverty in London through rescuing surplus food. |
| GapArt | FY2022 | £15k | The Great Green Ribbon in the occupied West Bank |
| Muslim Global Relief | FY2022 | £10k | To support humanitarian work in Afghanistan. |
| DEC | FY2022 | £3k | Ukraine emergency appeal |
| Environmental Funders Network | FY2022 | £2k | Annual Membership |
| Friends of Khwendo Kor | FY2022 | £2k | To support the Pakistan Flood Response |
| Single Homeless Project | FY2022 | £2k | Addressing homelessness in London |
| Salvation Army in Street | FY2022 | £2k | Street Food Bank and Christmas Appeal |
| CHASE Africa | FY2021 | £30k | Improving household resilience for refugee & host communities around Bidibidi refugee settlement |
| Vita | FY2021 | £30k | |
| Rural Environment and Development Organization | FY2021 | £30k | |
| Off-Grid Gas & Debre Tabor University | FY2021 | £30k | Reducing climate-induced displacement in Ethiopia by creating access to sustainable household energy & protecting trees |
| Climate Outreach | FY2021 | £30k | Centering refugee & migrant organizations in the climate debate |
| Afghanistan Relief & Sustainable Development Organization | FY2021 | £30k | Energy Saving Solutions in Sheikh Mesri IDPs Camp Jalalabad |
| Pastoralists Alliance for Resilience & Adaptation across Nations (PARAN) | FY2021 | £30k | Reducing water stress & risk of displacement among pastoralists in Kenya’s arid lands through community-led Water Resource Management |
| Community Needs Initiative | FY2021 | £29k | |
| Social Orientation and Relief Association (SOORA) | FY2021 | £29k | Sustainable landscape management for climate change mitigation & adaptation around Mahama refugee camp |
| Pragya | FY2021 | £29k | |
| GeoStory Camps | FY2021 | £29k | |
| Buhaguzi Action for Rural Development Foundation | FY2021 | £28k | |
| MedicineAfrica | FY2021 | £28k | |
| People’s Planet Project | FY2021 | £28k | |
| Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch | FY2021 | £26k | |
| Food for the Hungry UK | FY2021 | £26k | |
| The Felix Project | FY2021 | £15k | Rescue food that cannot be sold & redistribute to food banks & charities. |
| Afghanistan & Central Asian Association | FY2021 | £15k | Supporting recently arrived Afghan refugees in the UK to settle. |
| Working Chance | FY2021 | £2k | Support women leaving the criminal justice system to find work. |