Ashla Charitable Trust

The Ashla Charitable Trust is a family-based grant-making charity dedicated to advancing arts, humanitarian aid, education, and women's rights through targeted philanthropic support worldwide. Guided by values of creativity, inclusion, learning, and well-being for women and marginalised groups, it fosters positive social impact via trustees' principled discretion, prioritizing transformative projects that empower disadvantaged individuals and communities. Their impact approach emphasizes direct contributions to access, empowerment, and cultural enrichment, believing change arises from tangible interventions promoting equity, resilience, and opportunity for vulnerable populations.

They fund arts initiatives including festivals and creative programs enhancing cultural access and community cohesion for diverse participants, humanitarian aid such as refugee support services and integration activities addressing displacement trauma, educational interventions like skills training and learning programs for disadvantaged children, young people, and adults facing barriers to education, and women's rights projects delivering counselling, advocacy, and recovery services for women survivors of domestic abuse. Supported activities encompass literary projects and therapeutic arts for torture survivors and refugees, peer support groups for marginalised women, outreach for refugee families, creative arts therapy promoting emotional healing and confidence, employability training via education partnerships, and community-led empowerment addressing social isolation, poverty, and exclusion. They seek solutions tackling root causes like abuse trauma, educational inequity, refugee displacement, and cultural disconnection through inclusive, trauma-informed, person-centred interventions that build long-term resilience.

They exclude core costs, overheads, capacity building, capital projects, and unrestricted grants, focusing solely on direct project expenses. Distinctive for its quiet, highly targeted giving blending local arts and humanitarian efforts in creative communities with international education and women's empowerment, it prioritizes women experiencing abuse, refugees, torture survivors, marginalised learners, and grassroots charities delivering innovative, evidence-based services with family stewardship ethos emphasizing measurable transformative change over broad operations.