Felix Lustman Charitable Trust

The Felix Lustman Charitable Trust is a longstanding grant-making trust with a mission to advance UK charitable purposes through support for education, medical care and research, poverty relief, and community welfare initiatives. Guided by values of community strengthening, pragmatic responsiveness, and tangible impact for those in need, it employs a discretionary philosophy prioritizing enduring interventions that deliver direct benefits to vulnerable populations, fostering resilience via targeted aid without rigid strategies, and embracing both unrestricted core support and project-specific funding to empower UK charities addressing core human needs.

It funds education programs including special educational needs provision, after-school activities, and skills training for children and young people facing barriers; medical care and research initiatives such as therapeutic services, hospital support, and clinical advancements for complex health needs, physical disabilities, and chronic conditions; poverty relief efforts encompassing food insecurity programs, financial hardship aid, and emergency support for families in crisis, homeless individuals, and refugees; social welfare services like respite care, day services, peer support groups, counselling, and community outreach for elderly residents experiencing isolation, carers, people with learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and those requiring holistic, person-centred interventions. Prioritizing community-led, preventative approaches, it backs activities yielding measurable improvements in health outcomes, educational attainment, employment readiness, family stability, and social cohesion, especially therapeutic activities, advocacy, mentoring, and befriending schemes tackling disadvantage root causes.

With minimal exclusions beyond UK-registered charities, it avoids non-charitable entities but welcomes diverse scales from grassroots to established organizations. Distinctive for its family-led continuity, strong affinity for Jewish community welfare intersecting with disability support, medical research, and poverty alleviation—serving children with complex needs, isolated elderly, low-income families, and ethnic minority groups—it favors North West England communities and pragmatic, evidence-informed projects blending Jewish communal objectives with broader social welfare, emphasizing innovation in care delivery and sustained beneficiary empowerment over statutory duplication.