Geoff & Fiona Squire Foundation

The Geoff & Fiona Squire Foundation is a family-led grantmaker driven by a mission to advance disability support, education, medicine, and children's welfare and healthcare through flexible, responsive funding that delivers tangible benefits to those overlooked by larger funders. Core values emphasize practical interventions, direct services, and equity for smaller charities addressing unmet needs, believing lasting impact arises from empowering grassroots organizations with tailored support for educational opportunities, medical treatments, and welfare enhancements that foster independence, inclusion, and family wellbeing.

They prioritize disability support including sports programmes, therapeutic activities, and day services for children and young people aged 5-19 with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, special educational needs, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and complex health needs, alongside educational initiatives such as after-school clubs, skills training, and SEND provision enabling access to mainstream opportunities. Funding targets children's healthcare interventions like medical treatments, respite care, and welfare services preventing family crisis, peer support groups for families caring for disabled children, employment training for disabled young people, counselling and holistic therapies addressing emotional and developmental challenges, community outreach for isolated families, and practical projects promoting person-centred, preventative care, trauma-informed approaches, and early intervention to build resilience, confidence, and social inclusion.

They explicitly avoid large national charities or well-resourced causes, focusing instead on smaller organizations serving children with disabilities, disabled young people, and families facing barriers in underserved communities across England and Wales. Distinctive for family governance, openness to core costs for sustainability, and niche commitment to overlooked practical services like special needs sports and medical welfare, they seek evidence-based, community-led charities with lived experience leadership prioritizing direct beneficiary impact over broad advocacy.