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Joseph Rowntree Foundation - responsive grants

Archived Addiction and substance misuse Communities Community and neighbourhood development Community development Housing and homelessness Natural environment and climate Poverty and deprivation Refugees and asylum seekers research Rural development Social inclusion Un/Employed Urban development Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Large (over £60,000) Medium (up to £60,000) Small (up to £10,000)

Overview

JRF are one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK, spending about £7 million a year on a research and development programme that seeks to better understand the causes of social difficulties and explore ways of overcoming them.

Current research themes:

  • Housing and neighbourhoods
  • Poverty and disadvantage
  • Practice and research
  • Drugs and alcohol
  • Governance
  • Immigration and inclusion
  • Independent living
  • Parenting

They do not carry out the research in-house, but work in partnership with a large variety of academic and other institutions to achieve their aims.

Example Grants

  • 2011: Our work on forced labour has helped raise the profile of forced labour in Northern Ireland —including being recognised in Northern ireland questions in the UK parliament, and being picked up by some employers in the food industry. Policy makers and researchers from across Europe have made use of a JRF-funded paper on forced labour from Klara Skrivankova. This paper describes how forced labour is best seen as one extreme of a continuum from decent work to forced labour. It has advanced conceptual thinking on forced labour, contributing to a greater clarity in the way forced labour can be seen and that can have real value in developing and improving responses to the problem.
  • 2007: Queens University Belfast £53,428 Teenage Drinking Cultures