Janet and Bryan Moore Charitable Trust

The Janet and Bryan Moore Charitable Trust is dedicated to enhancing and uniting rural communities through grants that preserve heritage and foster cohesion, rooted in founders' farming heritage and belief in community spirit as the foundation of resilient village life. Core values emphasize localism, grassroots empowerment, safeguarding cultural landmarks like rural churches as communal hearts, and relational grantmaking prioritizing projects that build continuity, collective wellbeing, and social bonds. They drive funding by supporting community-led initiatives yielding observable uplifts in interaction, inclusion, and shared spaces, believing change arises from tangible enhancements to everyday village fabric sustaining worship, learning, play, and recreation.

They prioritize capital projects repairing and maintaining rural churches and community facilities to ensure ongoing access for worship, gatherings, and heritage preservation, equipment and improvements for preschools, childcare facilities, and youth clubs enabling safe, inclusive environments for children aged 0-11 and young people aged 12-18 in rural settings, community gardens and peace initiatives promoting therapeutic outdoor activities, social cohesion, and intergenerational connection, and tangible project costs for voluntary groups delivering after-school clubs, play schemes, and befriending to combat isolation among rural families, children, and residents. Interventions focus on preventative community-led solutions addressing social fragmentation, youth disengagement, early years development barriers, and loss of cherished spaces, supporting service models like day centres in villages, peer-led youth activities, family-inclusive recreation, and heritage-based events that strengthen resilience, belonging, and holistic wellbeing for multi-generational rural populations facing remoteness and under-resourced facilities.

They exclude core or unrestricted funding, individual benefits, and non-community-wide projects, favoring grassroots charities embedded in rural villages with projects uniting diverse local segments like families, children, youth, and elders. Distinctive for hyper-local focus on central England rural heritage, preference for small associations protecting church-centric community hubs, and commitment to practical, relational support overlooked by distant funders, prioritizing organizations demonstrating lived rural ties, inclusive participation, and enduring communal vitality.