JRCT’s Power and Accountability Programme

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) is accepting applications from not-for-profit organisations working at the national level to ensure a more equal share of power in society.

Funding is intended to meet the following priorities:

• Strengthening corporate accountability – developing and promoting mechanisms which increase the responsiveness of companies to shareholders, stakeholders, regulators and the long-term public interest, for example, through improvements to corporate governance.
• Strengthening democratic accountability – initiatives to ensure an accountable, transparent and proportionate relationship between the private sector and government.
• Encouraging responsible media – developing relevant and proportionate responses to the risks of misinformation and disinformation in commercial media.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, JRCT is also keen to support work which:

• Holds to the government and/or corporations to account for injustices arising as a result of their responses to the pandemic.
• Examines how the media landscape has been affected by COVID-19.
• Envisages how corporations could transform their purpose and practices to better address stakeholder concerns as part of recovery from the pandemic.

Under this programme, JRCT will accept applications for national work in the UK, or elsewhere in Europe for work at a pan-European level.

Funding is at the discretion of the Trustees.

The next deadline for applications is 29 November 2021.