Criteria For Funding

How We Work


Jubilee Action is an international Christian charity working to rescue and protect children, of all faiths, races and cultures, facing the most serious injustices: those who are held in prison, subject to trafficking, victims of prostitution, recruited as child soldiers or living as street children.

Jubilee Action advises and funds partners working on the ground. These local partners are always experts in their own communities and often run new projects with significant potential - those able to make a little go a long way. We aim to provide seed-funding to enable them to become independent for the long term.
 

Applying for Funding


Phase One - Small Grants Scheme

Organisations who have not previously worked with Jubilee Action are only eligible to apply for the Small Grants Scheme, which has a maximum budget of £5,000.  All organisations applying for support must meet our twelve essential funding criteria. Phase one applicants should fill out our prequalification questionnaire, which tests eligibility against these measures.

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Our prequalification questionnaire is assessed by senior staff members every quarter at these intervals: February, May, August and November.

Phase Two - Further Funding

Following a successful partnership through the Small Grants Scheme, organisations who meet our essential criteria will be informed in writing and invited to fill in a submission to assess suitability according to our twelve preferred criteria.

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Phase two submissions will be assessed initially by senior staff members who will make recommendations to the board of trustees twice a year in January and August.

Final selection is then based on compatability with all our measures and values.

Applicants will be contacted in writing within four weeks of a decision.
 

Essential Funding Criteria


Partner organisations must:

Infrastructure & Accountability
  • Have a board of directors and established accounting and reporting systems.
  • Be registered locally.
  • Demonstrate potential capacity (finance, resources and personnel) to implement their proposed programme.
  • Be able to demonstrate clearly how their programmes will provide effective support for local children.
  • Set realistic and measurable benchmarks of success that will allow for full evaluation and measurement of their effectiveness by Jubilee Action.
  • Make it possible for a Jubilee Action representative to visit their projects at least once a year.
  • Demonstrate a reasonable cost benefit ratio between budget spent and the number of children assisted.
  • Have at least two references either from previous funders or a personal recommendation.

Values
  • Share Jubilee Action's goal to rescue and protect the most vulnerable children: those who are held in prison, subject to trafficking, victims of prostitution, recruited as child soldiers or living as street children.
  • Be able to demonstrate where their work fits into Jubilee Action's three-part model of protecting vulnerable children: rescuing them from immediate risk; offering rehabilitation and support; providing them with the skills, tools and education they need to realise a new vision for their lives.
  • Have extensive knowledge of the needs of local children and their communities.
  • Show inclusiveness of all people groups and faiths.
 

Desirable Funding Criteria


The partner organisation should:

  • Have a budget of less than £200,000 a year.
  • Demonstrate plans to become self-sustaining within five years.
  • Interact directly with beneficiaries on the ground.
  • Have strong links with local groups and show a willingness to work with them.
  • Tackle issues that are overlooked or ignored by local communities.
  • Demonstrate approaches that can tackle entrenched problems.
  • Operate in an area where there is only limited NGO or charitable activity.
  • Operate in societies where mistreatment of children has become commonplace, for example, through war, corruption or political motivation.
  • Work in societies where inadequate laws and structures exist to protect children, or where the laws that are in place are rarely enforced.
  • Operate in countries where the UK has political leverage or the unfilled potential to initiate change.
  • Demonstrate that their project plans take HIV/AIDS into account.
  • Demonstrate the possibility to replicate their model elsewhere.
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