The Paristamen Charity has long supported charities seeking to uphold human rights as one of the areas of our grantmaking. So we were delighted to be one of the 180 charities across the UK that has signed an open letter…
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The trustees of The Paristamen Charity are delighted to invite proposals for a one-off grant of up to £25,000 under our Blue Sky grants programme 2026. This will be our last Blue Sky grant. We are inviting proposals from a…
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The Annual Report and Accounts of The Paristamen Charity for the year 2024/25 have just been published marking the completion of 40 years of grantmaking – they are available on the charitable basis page of this site. The accounts show…
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The Paristamen trustees have recently confirm the decision made in principle last year, and announced at our 40th anniversary event that we will be looking to wind-up The Paristamen Charity at the end of the financial year ending 31 March…
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The application form we introduced from autumn 2025 for Responsive Grants has proved very popular. A few small tweaks have been made to the form and a new version is available from July 2025 – see the Responsive Grants –…
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In April 2025 we marked 40 years since the founding of what is now The Paristamen Charity. To celebrate the anniversary we held an event in Edinburgh and announced awards under a new programme of Anniversary Grants to provide further…
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For many years The Paristamen Charity had not had a formal application form as we preferred to hear from charities applying to us in their own words. However, sometimes essential information was missing and we have noted that many charities…
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Instead of awarding a Large Grant or Blue Sky grant this year (2024/25) we are pleased to announce what we describe as a Collaborative Grant. We have awarded £20,000 to UK-wide Christian charity the Cinnamon Network to enable Cinnamon support…
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We are delighted to welcome two new charity trustees who have joined the board of The Paristamen Charity with effect from 24 October 2024. Both applied in response to an open invitation. Karen Docwra has held a range of senior…
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In March 2023, The Paristamen Charity awarded a substantial ‘Blue Sky’ grant to the University of Glasgow Department of Theology for a project Christian Perspectives on Scotland’s Constitutional Future. The aim was to bring together Christians on both sides of…
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