Focus Foundation

Focus Foundation, established in 2021 as the philanthropic arm of Focus Group, drives sustainable community development and social equity by bridging chronic underfunding for grassroots charities, believing direct support to overlooked groups fosters opportunity, dignity, and wellbeing. Core values of inclusivity, transparency, partnership, and transformative collaboration empower smaller organizations through hands-on mentoring and relational engagement, prioritizing evidence-based interventions that build community resilience and long-term equity via community-led, practical solutions addressing root causes of disadvantage.

Prioritizing socially and economically disadvantaged children and young people facing barriers to opportunity, the Foundation funds youth schemes including after-school clubs, mentoring programs, skills training, and outdoor activities promoting emotional regulation, confidence, and employability; mental health initiatives such as counselling, therapeutic activities, peer support groups, drop-in centres, and trauma-informed interventions for anxiety, depression, and isolation among young people; community hubs delivering holistic support like food insecurity relief through food banks, family carer support, and preventative early intervention to avert crisis; localized projects tackling social isolation, poverty, and youth unemployment with person-centred, inclusive approaches. They champion innovative grassroots services enabling access to play, development, and social connection for underprivileged youth, alongside mental health peer support and community-led resilience-building for families in acute need.

Exclusions encompass core costs, unrestricted funding, part-funding, and non-project activities lacking tangible, measurable outcomes; they avoid generalist or large-scale national efforts duplicating well-resourced services. Distinctive for channeling 100% donor funds directly to communities while covering overheads, their niche lies in empowering frontline UK grassroots charities—especially youth clubs and mental health drop-ins—serving disadvantaged children, young people, and localized regions of acute deprivation through proactive partnerships, capacity building, and preference for lived-experience-led, evidence-based innovations redressing philanthropic imbalances.