Owen Family Trust

The Owen Family Trust advances charitable purposes through flexible, discretionary grants to registered charities and voluntary groups, guided by familial stewardship, prudent asset management, and commitment to public benefit. Core values emphasize adaptability, local responsiveness, and enduring legacy in supporting community vitality, believing sustainable impact arises from trustee-led empowerment of grassroots efforts addressing regional needs with integrity, intergenerational equity, and heritage-conscious stewardship. They prioritize partnership with voluntary sector infrastructure, fostering capacity for direct services and capital enhancements that build resilient communities.

They fund youth initiatives including after-school clubs, mentoring, and skills development for young people facing barriers, older people’s services addressing social isolation, befriending, day activities, and intergenerational programs promoting connection and wellbeing, health-related activities encompassing mental health counselling, therapeutic support, complex health needs care, and preventative health opportunities for families and communities, alongside heritage preservation through capital repairs and improvements to historic Christian churches, secular buildings, and community landmarks vital for cultural identity and social cohesion. Supported interventions include core costs for community associations, direct outreach services, peer support groups, advocacy for vulnerable residents, and infrastructure strengthening voluntary organizations delivering person-centred, community-led solutions to poverty, social isolation, carer support, and environmental heritage in everyday life, targeting early intervention and holistic resilience for children, young people aged 5-25, elderly residents, families in crisis, and disabled individuals within local networks.

With no fixed thematic exclusions, they exercise absolute trustee discretion to align with regional priorities, distinctly favoring longstanding local groups, grassroots charities, and heritage projects in West Midlands and North Wales communities, including rural and urban areas with exceptional needs. They prioritize beneficiaries like isolated elderly, at-risk youth, families requiring health and carer support, and culturally significant sites, valuing evidence-based, adaptive approaches from organizations demonstrating community leadership, lived experience, and multi-generational impact over national or unrelated endeavors.