Kristina Martin Charitable Trust

The Trust focuses on breaking the homelessness-mental health link through prevention services and embedded therapeutic programmes for homeless people. It also mitigates social media harms, including online bullying and digital exclusion, via awareness training, digital literacy, and safe online resilience-building for children and young people. Combating social isolation and loneliness through community hubs, befriending, peer support groups, and outreach for isolated individuals is another key area, alongside enhancing youth mental health outcomes with early intervention, resilience training, suicide prevention, grief counselling, and school-based mental health support. The Trust funds registered charities across the United Kingdom, supporting both core costs and project delivery.

Registered charities across the United Kingdom are eligible to apply. The Trust prioritises organisations that champion the needs of marginalised groups, including homeless people, digitally excluded youth, grieving families, and lonely elderly individuals. It favours charities demonstrating robust governance, clear outcomes, and innovation, and it values youth leadership and lived experience voices in programme design. The Trust is particularly supportive of smaller organisations that may be overlooked by larger funders, and it welcomes unsolicited applications.

The Trust does not fund projects that lack a clear alignment with mental health outcomes. It avoids supporting duplicative efforts, favouring instead charities that show innovation and measurable impact. Non-mental health projects, even those with community benefits, are outside its scope unless they directly address the interconnected drivers of mental ill-health, such as homelessness, isolation, or digital harms.

The Trust operates an annual grant round, offering one-off grants rather than multi-year commitments. It supports both core costs and project delivery, with a typical grant range that can extend to exceptional larger awards. The Trust welcomes unsolicited applications and values partnerships with organisations that bring hope-infused, evidence-based interventions scalable across communities.