Grants for work in Israel

The Rayne Trust is an independent grant-making charity which aims to build bridges between communities and acts as a catalyst in supporting new ideas or ways of working. The Trust works to develop and increase tolerance and understanding between communities of different backgrounds and to help bring people in from the margins of society.

What we fund

The Trust in Israel favours organisations whose services are equally accessible by all citizens, and whose work provides direct benefits to people who are living in challenging and/or vulnerable circumstances.

Our priority areas are:

Building an equitable and shared society between Arabs and Jews
Improved mental health and resilience-building in the periphery
Supporting refugees and asylum seekers

Funding criteria

The Rayne Trust funds work that:

Approaches issues differently and enables innovation
Has potential for wider application beyond the funded proposal
Is informed by direct delivery and has a clear, positive impact on people’s lives
Enables and encourages collaboration between sectors and silos
Develops best practice and captures learnings to share with others
Adds to sector expertise and leadership
Can demonstrate match-funding contributions to the project

Enabling innovation and wider application
When assessing an application, we look for good ideas from which others can learn and that have lessons beyond the local. We believe that to contribute to lasting social change, we must support creative and collaborative approaches that build and test solutions to some of the most difficult challenges society faces, so we like to fund innovative projects that approach issues differently.

It’s important to us that the organisations we fund are outward-facing, networked, and actively seeking to collaborate. We believe this maximises the potential for learning to be shared and for our funding to have impact beyond the immediate grant.

You can read the Rayne Trust’s complete guidance here.

Applicant FAQ’s

What do you fund, and what is the typical grant size?

We fund salary and project costs usually of £10,000 to £20,000 pa for up to 3 years. We prefer to fund alongside others and encourage the involvement of other funders or organisations as we do not contribute to more than 50% of the funding required. We consider the size of your request relative to your overall turnover.

What types of organisations do you support?

We fund charitable and not-for-profit organisations, targeting our fundings towards organisations that don’t receive 75% or more from public funding. Large, national organisations with a turnover of more than 10 million shekels are unlikely to receive a grant unless they are particularly well placed to tackle a specific need.

What projects will you NOT fund?

We will not consider applications:

Outside of our programme areas
That do not meet the key funding criteria listed above
For medical research
Exclusively focused on campaigning and lobbying work
For retrospective funding
For endowments
For individuals use
From organisations who have applied and been rejected in the past 12 months

How do I apply for a grant?

We run a rolling, open grants programme with no deadline.

Fill out our application form, in which you’ll be asked questions related to your organisation, the proposed project, and safeguarding. Email the completed form in Word or PDF format to israelapplications@raynetrust.org.

Following assessment of this form, our Grants Team may invite you to share a more detailed proposal, allowing us to gain a deeper understanding of your organisation’s work. At this stage, we may arrange a visit to your organisation. Following this, we will decide whether the application will be taken to the Board for a decision.

What is safeguarding?

We take our safeguarding responsibility seriously, and it plays an important part in our due diligence process.

As part of best practice, the Charity Commission in England and Wales asks that grantees in Israel confirm that they have policies and procedures in place that demonstrate how they protect vulnerable populations. It is your responsibility to ensure that these people are protected from harm, abuse, and neglect.

Examples may include users’ emotional harassment of uses of your charity, or of your staff. In this case, we expect you to have procedures in place to protect that individual.

For us to confirm that you are taking safeguarding seriously, applicants will be asked to answer questions related to safeguarding on our application form.