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The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace

Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation Grants

Grants of up to GBP 10,000 to UK charities and non-profits working on violence against young people, women and girls, and on support for victims of violent crime and terrorism. The Foundation was created after the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington that killed Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball, and became a grant-maker in 2025 after selling its Peace Centre. Applications are online, accepted all year round, and the Foundation says it keeps its processes simple because it knows what fundraising is like from the other side.

Apply on the funder’s site
You could get
Up to £10,000
no fixed round
Deadline
Rolling
apply any time
Effort
Moderate
full application with documents

Who can apply

  • Charities registered with the Charity Commission, and other not-for-profit organisations registered with Companies House — if you are a company limited by guarantee you must be registered there
  • The Foundation confirms in its FAQs that it will consider applications from social enterprises, CICs and community groups
  • Individuals and animal charities cannot apply, and overseas activities are excluded
  • The work must fall within the two focus areas: preventing violence against young people, women and girls, and supporting victims of violent crime or terrorism
  • The Foundation particularly looks for charities and organisations with strong community links that can provide firm evidence the funding will improve young people's lives, and says it will use simple processes because smaller organisations have limited time and fewer resources
  • Under normal circumstances the Board will not approve a grant to a charity that has received Foundation funding within the previous two years, and unsuccessful applicants are asked to wait a year before reapplying

What it funds

Work in the Foundation's two primary focus areas: preventing violence against young people, women and girls, and supporting victims of violent crime and terrorism. Specifically:

  • Organisations helping adults and young people who are victims of violence due to their gender, ethnicity, faith or race, and those at risk of being affected by societal violence
  • Organisations helping women and young girls who are victims of violence to respond to and recover from their experience and become role models for others
  • Organisations promoting non-violence in schools and further education
  • Organisations working with victims of terrorism and their families
  • Organisations helping people build the skills and resilience to make the right life choices
  • Organisations developing and delivering programmes to reduce or prevent violent behaviour in society, in particular acts of terrorism

Grants are paid in two instalments over 12 months and must be spent within that period.

What it will not fund

  • Capital and revenue costs associated with building works, furniture or equipment
  • Overheads — administration, rent, utility costs, legal and audit fees
  • Projects not aligned to the Foundation's aims and objectives
  • Animal charities
  • Overseas activities
  • Individuals

the two statements of exclusions on the site disagree about salaries. The home page lists 'salaries associated with a funded project' as something the Foundation will fund; the application-form page excludes 'salaries and/or running costs'. Ask before budgeting for staff time

the Board will not normally approve a grant, regardless of merit, to a charity that has had Foundation funding within the previous 2 years

How to apply

  1. Check your work falls within the two focus areas and that you are a registered charity or a not-for-profit registered with Companies House
  2. Complete the online application form on the Foundation's Application Form page, giving contact and organisation details, your website, the total amount requested and how the money will be used, and a breakdown of costs
  3. Upload the required documents and any evidence of successful outcomes or quotes — up to five files in each of the two upload fields
  4. Describe the project and who will benefit, confirm you have the human and financial resources to complete it, list past successful projects delivered, and add anything else that strengthens the application
  5. Submit the form; you will receive an acknowledgement, but may not hear again until the outcome is decided

if your project has a firm start date, submit at least four months before it is due to begin

the FAQs say applications are only considered through the online form and not by post, though the terms and conditions page also refers to returning a completed form to info@timjon.org.uk

successful applicants sign terms and conditions and return a Letter of Acceptance with bank details; reports and outcomes are due at 6 months and at the end of the 12-month period

Have ready

  • Annual accounts
  • Constitution
  • Safeguarding policy
  • Insurance
  • Any evidence of successful outcomes, and quotes, to enhance the application

signed authority to use any photographs, if you are awarded a grant

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