Coalfields Regeneration Trust

Coalfields Regeneration Trust, established to regenerate former coalfield communities ravaged by mine closures, drives social justice, community wealth building, and resilience through targeted interventions in Britain's most deprived mining regions. Its values emphasize equitable access to health, skills, jobs, cohesion, and climate resilience, with a philosophy of self-sustaining reinvestment via property and renewable energy subsidiaries. Funding decisions prioritize data-driven, outcomes-focused partnerships with grassroots organizations, empowering local leadership to foster long-term economic independence, community empowerment, and holistic wellbeing via community-led regeneration.

It supports physical and mental health interventions including wellbeing programs, mental health counselling, and targeted cancer support services for residents facing economic inactivity and isolation; foundation-level skills training and employability programs addressing youth unemployment and barriers to work; youth sport initiatives combating drop-off through after-school clubs, sports clubs, and outdoor activities for young people aged 5-19; economic regeneration via property-based job creation, asset transfers, and micro business loans for social enterprises; capacity building for voluntary organizations delivering peer support groups, community action planning, and respite-like health services; climate outcomes through renewable energy investments benefiting community hubs and resource centres. Interventions target economic inactivity, health disparities, skills gaps, and social isolation with preventative, community-led approaches like therapeutic sports, job-readiness mentoring, and holistic family support in high-deprivation coalfield neighbourhoods.

Exclusions encompass personal costs, core organizational running costs unless project-specific, retrospective activities, and non-coalfield initiatives, prioritizing exclusively deprived former mining communities over broader populations. Distinctive for its UK-wide coalfield-only remit, self-financing model generating profits for reinvestment, and focus on grassroots VCSEs, sport clubs, youth organizations, and cancer peer support groups rooted in place-based needs; it champions evidence-based, partnership-driven strategies valuing lived experience leadership, asset-based development, and measurable impacts on jobs, health, skills, and cohesion for economically inactive families, youth, and cancer-affected individuals in isolated mining valleys.