The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust provides grants of between £2,000 and £10,000, with no specific requirement for matched funding, for revenue projects as well as occasional grants of up to £35,000 (as a matched funding contribution towards capital projects) for UK registered charities working in the UK and/or overseas whose activities include one or more of the following:
- To conserve wildlife
- To encourage the understanding of animals, and
- To relieve animals from suffering.
The Trust favours small to medium sized charities (charities that aren’t registered and have an annual income of under £5,000 are also eligible to apply) that meet the following criteria:
Are able to demonstrate an active re-homing and rehabilitation policy for animals taken into their care.
- Involved with conservation of wildlife, when the rescue, rehabilitation and (where appropriate and possible) the release of animals.
- Registered with the Charity Commission unless their annual income is under £5,000, with independently examined and up-to-date annual accounts, and
- Smaller animal welfare charities registered in the UK and working in the UK or abroad.
Further information, guidance and an application form is available on the Trust’s website.
The Trust has recently reviewed its annual application deadlines. These are now:
- 1 April (for its Summer meeting).
- 1 August (for its Autumn meeting), and
- 1 December (for the Trust's Spring meeting)