IBA Human Rights Institute Trust
At a glance
Key takeaways
- The Trust's stated interests are human rights education and training, legal capacity building, monitoring of abuses and threats to justice, redress for victims, and legal research and publication, so a project should clearly sit within one of these to be considered.
- Its annual report gives annual giving of £520,846, but no grant range is stated, so frame any request around what your project needs rather than a typical grant size.
- It gives special emphasis to legal education and training in developing countries and to projects with strong potential to disseminate information, so a proposal that stresses these points fits its stated priorities.
- No application process is publicly published, and applications are considered only when they meet the Trust's objectives, so a short enquiry explaining how your project fits one of its themes is a sensible first step.
- Scholarship programmes are typically funded through institutions rather than individual applications, so an individual seeking a scholarship should not assume a direct route.
Overview
IBA Human Rights Institute Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1133427).
IBA Human Rights Institute Trust is a registered charity that supports the charitable work of the IBA Human Rights Institute and other projects promoting human rights and the administration of justice throughout the world. Its interests include human rights law education and training, technical assistance and capacity building, monitoring and researching human rights abuses, redress for victims, and research and publication. Its annual giving was £520,846 according to its annual report.
What they fund
Priority Areas
The Trust supports the charitable work of the IBA Human Rights Institute and projects promoting human rights and the administration of justice worldwide. It is interested in human-rights-law education and training, technical assistance and capacity building, monitoring and researching human rights abuses and threats to justice and the rule of law, redress for victims, and research and publication. It gives special emphasis to legal education and training in developing countries, particularly projects with strong potential to disseminate information. Support also includes scholarship programmes, typically through institutions rather than individual applications, and legal reports, books and newsletters addressing issues affecting the international legal community, including the rule of law, due process and judicial independence.
Themes
- Human rights education
- Legal capacity building
- Human rights monitoring
- Victim redress
- Legal research and publication
Geographic Focus
Throughout the world.
How to apply
Applications are considered only when they meet the Trust's objectives. Scholarship programmes are typically funded through institutions rather than by individual application.
Application success factors
What the charity says:
- It gives special emphasis to legal education and training in developing countries and focuses on projects with strong potential to disseminate information.
Where they fund
Where it says it funds
- International
Similar funders
Funders supporting work similar to IBA Human Rights Institute Trust.
Grants
The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:
- The Human Rights Measurement Initiative£75,026year to 31 December 2025
- Reprieve£40,000year to 31 December 2025
- The Protimos Educational Trust£40,000year to 31 December 2025
- Death Penalty Project£35,000year to 31 December 2025
Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts. Not included above: 19 with no named recipient.
Five years of accounts
| Financial year | Income | Expenditure | Grants paid | Accounts document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year to 31 December 2021 | £493,344 | £721,437 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2021 |
| year to 31 December 2022 | £602,485 | £635,600 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2022 |
| year to 31 December 2023 | £894,870 | £1,099,040 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2023 |
| year to 31 December 2024 | £942,993 | £835,653 | — | Accounts for year to 31 December 2024 |
| year to 31 December 2025 | £892,216 | £1,032,907 | £520,846 | Accounts for year to 31 December 2025 |
- Grants paid, year to 31 December 2025: the accounts do not say whether this is grants awarded or paid.
— No grants figure for those years.
Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.
Sources
Registers and filings
Other sources
- ibanet.org
- ibanet.org/About_the_IBA/IBA_charitable_trust · read on 30 October 2026
- Annual report (year to 31 December 2025)
This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.
Sources last checked on 30 October 2026.
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Contact
- ibanet.org
- Charity Commission register entryContact details as held by the Charity Commission
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Contact
- ibanet.org
- Charity Commission register entryContact details as held by the Charity Commission