F Glenister Woodger Trust CIO

The F Glenister Woodger Trust CIO advances broad public benefit through trustee-discretionary grants promoting charitable activities that enhance community wellbeing and sustainability. Rooted in flexible philanthropy, responsible stewardship, and adaptable responses to evolving local needs, its values emphasize robust governance, risk management, and balanced investment to safeguard resources for enduring impact. Funding decisions prioritize tangible, long-term improvements in quality of life via community empowerment, infrastructure strengthening, and welfare support, believing change arises from targeted investments in local assets, grassroots initiatives, and family resilience that foster self-sustaining community vitality.

It supports community development projects including capital grants for infrastructure repairs like cycle paths enabling active travel and outdoor activities, refurbishment of community sheds and open spaces promoting social cohesion and recreational access, family support services through volunteer-led initiatives addressing parental stress, child wellbeing, and family crisis prevention via Home-Start-style befriending, outreach, and targeted projects for families in need. Grants fund health-related charities providing primary medical facilities and wellbeing amenities, faith-based community activities enhancing spiritual and social support, parish council contributions for local amenities tackling social isolation, and civic projects building capacity for grassroots groups. Interventions focus on preventative infrastructure enhancing physical health, community-led welfare reducing isolation among residents, and holistic quality-of-life improvements through accessible spaces, volunteer coordination, and family strengthening programs that prevent breakdown and promote resilience.

Exclusions include non-charitable purposes and national-scale activities lacking local ties; unrestricted core funding is rare, favoring project-specific and capital interventions. Distinctive for its Chichester District and West Sussex emphasis on rural and district communities facing infrastructure deficits, it prioritizes grassroots volunteer-led organizations, local churches, health support charities, and civic bodies delivering enduring public benefit. Unique in blending faith-based ethos with secular welfare, it seeks evidence of strong local need, community leadership, and sustainable impact on families, isolated residents, and amenity-dependent populations.