Doris Field Charitable Trust

The Trust funds diverse interventions tackling poverty relief and financial hardship, including food banks, baby banks, and essential goods distribution. It supports community development through festivals, events, and cohesion-building activities that combat social isolation. Arts programming, music, and cultural activities foster wellbeing and inclusion. Housing support addresses homelessness prevention and secure accommodation. Social welfare services encompass befriending, outreach, drop-in centres, and advocacy for isolated elderly people, families in crisis, children and young people at risk, and carers. Backed activities include running costs for day services, therapeutic community-led programmes, peer support groups, training for employability, preventative early intervention, and capital enhancements. The Trust distinctly favours Oxfordshire-rooted charities, especially grassroots groups in Headington and surrounding neighbourhoods.

Registered charities and community groups based in or serving Oxfordshire, particularly those rooted in Headington and surrounding areas, are eligible. Priority is given to organisations supporting urban families, low-income carers, isolated elderly people, and children with complex family needs. The Trust values grassroots empowerment and community-led approaches, without requiring evidence-based or faith-specific criteria.

The Trust has no formal thematic exclusions, but it distinctly favours Oxfordshire-rooted charities, especially grassroots groups in Headington and surrounding neighbourhoods serving urban families, low-income carers, isolated elderly people, and children with complex family needs.

The Trust welcomes unsolicited applications. It provides flexible, responsive grantmaking that balances immediate relief with long-term sustainability, supporting both core operations and innovative projects through authentic partnerships and adaptive funding.