Postcode Society Trust

Postcode Society Trust is an independent charitable trust dedicated to enabling southern England communities to thrive by addressing local needs and inequalities, benefiting both people and planet through strengthened cohesion, enhanced wellbeing, and sustainable improvements. Core values of fairness, transparency, and social responsibility drive funding decisions, emphasizing grassroots empowerment, community-led innovation, collaboration, and measurable direct impact. They believe lasting change arises from supporting small local organizations with deep roots to foster social capital, prevent crises, and build resilience via time-limited projects prioritizing equity and local distinctiveness.

They fund poverty prevention and relief initiatives tackling food insecurity and financial hardship for families in crisis, advancement of health and wellbeing through mental health peer support groups, counselling, and therapeutic activities for vulnerable individuals facing anxiety, depression, or health inequalities, citizenship and community development projects promoting inclusion, social cohesion, and befriending schemes for isolated individuals and minority communities, arts, heritage, culture, and inclusive sports programs including community arts choirs, intergenerational heritage initiatives, and sports clubs fostering participation for children, young people, families, and older people, alongside environmental improvements via community gardening schemes and recreational outdoor activities enhancing quality of life. Supported interventions include preventative early action, person-centred outreach, creative therapies, youth mentoring, elderly day services, family support networks, and holistic community-led solutions addressing social isolation, socioeconomic disadvantage, and barriers to participation for children and families, elderly residents, ethnic minorities, and disadvantaged groups.

They exclude political groups, statutory agencies, individuals, national organizations, and activities outside Great Britain, prioritizing small-to-mid-sized grassroots charities delivering tangible local benefits without duplicating services. Distinctive focus lies in empowering underrepresented southern England communities through diverse thematic breadth, preference for innovation in arts, sports, environment, and wellbeing, commitment to sustainable outcomes for isolated elderly, children at risk, families in poverty, and minority groups via collaborative, evidence-based, community-driven approaches valuing lived experience and direct service delivery.