Batchworth Trust

The Batchworth Trust, established in 1965 as a charitable settlement, advances broad philanthropic purposes through discretionary grants to registered charities, prioritizing public benefit in medical research, youth work, and welfare initiatives. Core values emphasize flexibility, responsiveness to urgent needs, innovation potential, and maximising impact via investment-derived support for both ongoing services and pioneering projects. Their grantmaking philosophy champions public good through strategic investments in charities demonstrating significant unmet need, enabling critical interventions that foster health advancements, youth empowerment, and welfare resilience, with a belief that targeted philanthropy sustains community wellbeing and drives transformative change.

They fund medical research advancing innovative healthcare projects addressing complex health needs, chronic illnesses, and breakthrough therapies for children, adults, and families; youth development programs including mentoring, employability training, after-school clubs, skills workshops, and outdoor activities for young people aged 16-25 facing barriers like unemployment, social isolation, or family instability; welfare initiatives supporting social services such as respite care, peer support groups, counselling, family carer support, and community outreach for vulnerable populations including care leavers, families in crisis, disabled individuals with learning disabilities or physical disabilities, and those experiencing poverty or homelessness. Interventions encompass preventative early support, therapeutic activities, advocacy, befriending schemes, and holistic person-centred approaches tackling youth disengagement, health inequities, carer exhaustion, and welfare gaps through project funding, core costs, and revenue support for service delivery models like drop-in centres, helplines, and inclusive training programs.

They explicitly exclude funding for individuals, prioritising registered charities serving UK communities with occasional international medical or welfare projects, and favour organisations addressing urgent innovation or critical gaps in youth employability, medical breakthroughs, or family welfare. Distinctive for their generalist scope with enduring focus on health, youth, and social welfare, they support both large national service providers and small grassroots charities, valuing evidence-based impact, adaptability to pressing needs, and scalable solutions that prevent crisis and build long-term resilience without rigid thematic silos.