Some recent beneficiaries of the Trust

Winchester Action on Climate Change (WinACC)

Robert Hutchison, a contribution towards a one-year pilot project, Faith Communities and the Challenge of Climate Change, aimed at stimulating and equipping faith communities to reduce their carbon footprints.[website]

Church Action on Poverty - Voicebox

Liam Purcell, funding for Voicebox for 1 year. Voicebox collects stories from people affected by poverty and exclusion in the UK, which CAP uses in its campaigning work.[website]

Network for Religion in Public Life

Prof. Esther Reed of the University of Exeter, a grant for support costs for Christians, Jews and Muslims to engage together in the practice of Scriptural Reasoning as part of a wider initiative on Civic Practice in the South West of England.

Las Casas Centre for Social Justice and Institutions, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford

Francis Davis, start-up funding towards the Pire Programme on migration, asylum, refugee research and social innovation, and the De Porres Programme on poverty and growth.[website]

Faith Based Regeneration Network

Doreen Finneron, funding towards the research costs of a web-linked resource for faith-based social action.[website]

Church Action on Poverty - Just Church

Liam Purcell, funding towards the costs of the Just Church project for one year.[website]

Contextual Theology Centre, St Katharine’s Foundation

Andrew Ritchie, funding towards the costs of work on the Ken Leech Archive, including digitalization, collating a Ken Leech Reader, and a launch to help local faith communities build on the legacy.[website]

Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC)

Sonia Barron [website]

The Independent Asylum Commission

In 2006, following a feasibility grant from the MB Reckitt Trust to the Citizens Organising Foundation, twelve impartial Commissioners were asked to conduct an independent, nationwide review of the UK’s asylum system. The Independent Asylum Commission spent two years gathering testimony from asylum seekers and the public, taking evidence from experts, and engaging in dialogue with the authorities. The Commission produced over 180 recommendations to safeguard people who seek sanctuary here, while restoring public confidence in the UK’s role as a place of sanctuary for those fleeing persecution.

CITIZENS for Sanctuary is the campaign to make those recommendations a reality. For more information and to read the Independent Asylum Commission's reports see the website: www.citizensforsanctuary.org.uk [website]

Bridge Builders Preston

Greg Smith[website]

Continue with Some of the past work the Trust has supported