Hainsford Charitable Foundation

Hainsford Charitable Foundation, established in 2020, drives social mobility by expanding access to further education and opportunities for disadvantaged young people impacted by poverty, abuse, and discrimination. Its core values emphasize dismantling systemic barriers, fostering inclusion through equitable partnerships with charities and direct individual support, and prioritizing measurable outcomes via innovative, skill-building interventions. Believing change arises from targeted educational advancement, trauma recovery, and empowerment, it champions community-led equity, evidence-based practices, and holistic opportunity creation for underserved youth.

It funds university access programmes and skills development training for young people aged 16-25 facing educational exclusion, therapeutic support including trauma-informed counselling and activities for traumatised children recovering from abuse, artistic programmes and creative arts initiatives for performers and artists experiencing hardship, scientific research sponsorship like PhD projects advancing treatments for underserved groups with complex health needs, anti-discrimination advocacy and exhibitions promoting youth education and inclusion for ethnic minorities and discriminated communities, employability mentoring and after-school clubs addressing youth unemployment and poverty barriers, and capacity building for core costs in educational outreach and peer support groups. Interventions focus on preventative early access to higher education, person-centred therapeutic recovery, community-led skills training, and holistic research benefiting children, young people, care leavers, and families in crisis, tackling social isolation, learning barriers, and discrimination through innovative, evidence-based solutions.

Exclusions encompass non-educational projects, activities beyond social mobility and inclusion remits, and initiatives lacking clear, measurable impact on disadvantaged youth. Distinctive for blending organizational partnerships with direct grants to individuals like hardship-affected students and artists, it prioritizes UK-wide beneficiaries including traumatised children in rural areas like Kent, urban youth in London and Newcastle, and those with lived experience of poverty or abuse, favoring grassroots innovation, advocacy-driven anti-discrimination efforts, and trauma-informed approaches over generic support.