# THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT CHARITABLE TRUST

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1115035
- **Other names:** THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT (CT), THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT LIMITED, THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT CHARITABLE TRUST
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [05546367](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05546367)
- **Registered:** July 3, 2006
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1115035


## Contact

- **Address:** 87-91 NEWMAN STREET, LONDON
- **Postcode:** W1T 3EY
- **Phone:** 020 3206 2700
- **Email:** info@deathpenaltyproject.org
- **Website:** www.deathpenaltyproject.org



## Activities

**Objects:** 1 TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CARIBBEAN, ANGLOPHONE AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND ELSEWHERE AND PARTICULARLY THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS ACCUSED OF CRIMES THAT ARE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH AND OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH;2 TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW;3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW), AND IN PARTICULAR CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY;AND IN CLAUSE 1 &#x27;TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS&#x27; MEANS TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE RIGHTS ENSHRINED IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 1948, THE AMERICAN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MAN 1948, THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS 1966, THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 1978 AND THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES&#x27; RIGHTS 1981.

**Activities:** The charity is a grant giver which provides funds to The Death Penalty Project Limited (DPP Ltd), enabling it to provide free legal representation to prisoners under sentence of death. The charity and DPP Ltd also conduct capacity building programmes for legal and medical professionals; and develop and commission research studies on issues surrounding the death penalty.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- **Who:** Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** CARIBBEAN, ANGLOPHONE AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND ELSEWHERE
- Antigua And Barbuda
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Dominica
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guyana
- India
- Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Nigeria
- Saint Vincent
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- St Kitts And Nevis
- St Lucia
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- The Bahamas
- Trinidad And Tobago
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
- Throughout London





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **ANTHONY CHARLES BURTON CBE** | Chair |  |
| ANDREW CHARLES JAMES RODGER |  | April 13, 2025 |
| EDWARD FITZGERALD QC |  |  |
| SIMON GOLDBERG |  |  |




