Funding Partners

Current position

What CRT is seeking

CRT is potentially interested in engaging with funders who:

• Have a genuine alignment with the mission of raising professional standards in commodity trade
• Are prepared to fund on terms that preserve CRT's independence — no strings attached to standards-setting, certification decisions or governance
• Are themselves eligible to participate in CRT's ecosystem (as members, users or institutional stakeholders) without the funding relationship creating conflicts of interest that cannot be appropriately managed
• Can accept public disclosure of the funding relationship, consistent with CRT's transparency commitments

CRT is particularly interested in engagement from: trade industry bodies and associations; charitable foundations with an interest in trade integrity or financial crime prevention; and grant-making bodies supporting professional standards development in global trade.

Funding conditions and independence

Any external funding arrangement will be subject to the following non-negotiable conditions:

• The funder will not have influence over CRT's standards-setting, certification or conduct decisions
• The funding relationship will be publicly disclosed
• Any conditions attached to the funding will be publicly disclosed
• The funder will not be granted preferential treatment in CRT's membership or services beyond what is available to all members of the same category
• Revenue concentration limits will apply (no single funder exceeding the defined threshold of total income)

Full details of the proposed funding governance are on the Funding page.

How to engage