BIRTHRIGHTS 

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birthrights
£22,500	20/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
National Lottery Community Fund - Birthrights Community of Women & Birthing People
£10,000	10/02/2023	The funding will be used to establish a lived experience network and advisory group for pregnant women from Black Asian and Minority Ethnic groups The project aims to address equality and cultural ....more The funding will be used to establish a lived experience network and advisory group for pregnant women from Black Asian and Minority Ethnic groups The project aims to address equality and cultural barriers within maternity care and support health and wellbeing.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs and part CEO and Participation Lead salary costs.
£90,000	26/01/2023	Core costs and part CEO and Participation Lead salary costs.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£100,000	08/07/2022	A national inquiry on racial injustice and human rights in maternity care: phase two
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birthrights
£300,000	02/11/2021 48	Towards unrestricted core costs to protect human rights in maternity care through advice, training and influencing
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£40,000	14/12/2020	To pursue legal action challenging NHS Trusts' policies that violate women's fundamental human rights in childbirth, including a judicial review.
Thirty Percy Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£150,000	22/10/2020 36	Core costs for three years
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,992	07/09/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£60,000	10/07/2020 24	A national inquiry into race and maternity care
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£5,000	23/06/2020	Demand for Birthrights advice is up by 400%. Funding will help us meet the demand for up-to-date information about maternity rights during Covid19.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs for CEO, policy and support staff plus additional resource on community engagement
£100,000	21/05/2020 24	Core costs for CEO, policy and support staff plus additional resource on community engagement
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birthrights
£25,000	05/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£30,000	03/03/2020	Peer Partners project continuation funding from September – December 2020, with a focus on addressing race inequalities in pregnancy and birth
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£99,500	20/06/2018	To develop a "Peer Partners" project focusing on those most at risk of discrimination in maternity care, developing an innovative model of working in close partnership.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Birthrights
£150,000	10/04/2018 36	Towards two new posts to support Birthrights to achieve better care for women in, before and after childbirth by promoting safe, respectful maternity care.
Trust for London - Birthrights
£30,000	15/06/2017 12	The funding is to support the project and will investigate human rights-based challenges for perinatal women who face severe disadvantage in London. It will map the most frequent and severe ....more The funding is to support the project and will investigate human rights-based challenges for perinatal women who face severe disadvantage in London. It will map the most frequent and severe rights-based issues; identify actions to prevent and address them; create resources and training; use multiple routes to disseminate findings and influence policy in London and nationally.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£49,758	16/05/2017	To develop a "Peer Partners" project focusing on those most at risk of discrimination in maternity care, developing an innovative model of working in close partnership.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Birthrights
£29,710	10/02/2016	Create and evaluate an accessible human rights in childbirth education and resources programme (for qualified and student healthcare professionals) while growing organisational capacity.

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Trustees (6)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/03/2013, number: 1151152

Gift Aid

• Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Filing Record

Main office

BIRTHRIGHTS
Union House
111 New Union Street
COVENTRY
CV1 2NT

Objectives

The objects of the CIO are to promote the human rights of child-bearing women and people (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations, and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) in England and Wales by all or any of the following means: • Promoting awareness of the legal rights of child-bearing women and people during and connected to pregnancy, childbirth, the post-natal period (the 6 weeks subsequent to birth) and lactation;• Promoting respect for the legal rights of child-bearing women and people among healthcare organisations, medical and other professionals and in society at large;• Protecting the human rights of child-bearing women and people through the provision of legal information and advice and obtaining redress for victims of human rights abuse;• Campaigning in relation to human rights and related legal issues relating to child-bearing women and people;• Responding with technical advice to proposed legislation and policy affecting child-bearing women and people;• Providing technical advice to government and others on human rights and other legal and regulatory matters as they affect child-bearing women and people;• Contributing to the understanding and sound administration of human rights law as it affects child-bearing women and people, in particular, but not exclusively, through third-party interventions in legal cases;• Promoting the human rights and lawful treatment of child-bearing women and people by commissioning and conducting research;• Providing education and training to, among others, parents and parents-to-be, healthcare professionals and the public on human rights and the law as it affects child-bearing women and people.• Eliminating infringements of human rights of child-bearing women and people.• Other charitable activities that the trustees may from time to time determine to promote the human rights and legal status of childbearing women and people.(1) In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power to engage in political activity provided that the trustees are satisfied that the proposed activities will further the purposes of the charity to an extent justified by the resources committed and the activity is not the dominant means by which the CIO carries out its objects.(2) Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.