Daisie Rich Trust

The Daisie Rich Trust honors the legacy of Winifred Daisie Rich through a mission advancing care, kindness, and community spirit exclusively for Isle of Wight residents, prioritizing stewardship, local engagement, and responsive support to enhance quality of life, wellbeing, and opportunity. Core values emphasize direct community benefit, inclusivity, and tangible local impact via sustained partnerships with grassroots organizations, valuing both innovative projects and established infrastructure that foster long-term resilience, empowerment, and community-led change through visible, multi-generational benefits.

Thematic priorities span five sectors: youth development funding educational initiatives like literacy projects, sporting activities, after-school clubs, and mental health counselling for children and young people facing barriers; health services supporting hospice care, air ambulance operations, patient support groups, and respite care for families managing complex health needs or chronic conditions; community services backing bereavement care, family support through counselling and outreach, inclusive activities like adaptive sailing for disabled people, and local events promoting social cohesion; welfare and crisis intervention via citizens advice, emergency aid, and targeted support for homelessness prevention, poverty relief, and families in crisis; arts, culture, and environment through cultural venues, library enhancements for creative arts and therapeutic activities, and conservation projects addressing environmental wellbeing. Interventions emphasize preventative respite, peer support groups, community-led therapeutic activities, holistic person-centred care, and early intervention to combat isolation, build resilience, and enable participation for children, young people, elderly residents, carers, disabled individuals, and those experiencing grief, health crises, or economic hardship.

Exclusions limit funding to Isle of Wight direct beneficiaries, rejecting non-local or indirect activities; no support for non-charitable pursuits outside priority sectors. Distinctives include deep island-rooted legacy since 1955, preference for long-term local charities with trustee expertise, flexibility across project, core, capital, equipment, and emergency grants, and niche emphasis on multi-decade infrastructure like youth centres, hospices, and crisis services valuing grassroots inclusivity, evidence of community impact, and holistic approaches sustaining island families, youth, and vulnerable residents against isolation and adversity.