Strategic Human Rights Framework Grant

The A B Charitable Trust supports UK registered charities working to protect the human rights framework in the UK. The Trust provides funding for organizations engaged in campaigning, advocacy and influencing, legal work, and narrative change that covers the human rights framework as a whole. This includes work focused on human rights legislation and application in the UK, legal representation and litigation for victims of human rights abuses, and supporting individuals, communities and statutory bodies to understand their human rights. The funding primarily supports the rights contained in principal international human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UN conventions, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the European Convention on Human Rights. The Trust typically provides unrestricted funding to organizations with annual incomes between £150k and £1.5m that have operated for at least a year. Applications are considered quarterly by the Grants Committee. The Trust does not support single issue or single right campaigning, or human rights work focused on particular groups or communities. By exception, the Trust also supports organizations that foster an enabling environment for human rights, though this represents a small proportion of grants.