Thompson Family Charitable Trust

The Thompson Family Charitable Trust is a discretionary family foundation with a mission to advance public benefit by improving lives and strengthening communities across the UK through grants to registered charities. Rooted in family values of stewardship, flexibility, and broad impact, it embraces a generalist philosophy prioritizing enduring charitable needs over narrow focus, driven by belief in responsive, case-by-case support that sustains vital services, empowers beneficiaries, and addresses evolving social challenges via partnership with diverse organizations delivering measurable community strengthening.

It funds health services including hospital care, health research, mental health counselling, and therapeutic interventions for complex health needs, cancer support, stroke recovery, and palliative care through hospices providing respite care and end-of-life services for elderly residents and families facing terminal illness; disability services encompassing respite care, day services, peer support groups, and inclusive activities for children, young people, and adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and ADHD; children and young people initiatives like after-school clubs, sports programs, youth mentoring, and employment training to combat social isolation and barriers to development; arts projects delivering creative arts therapy and cultural access for therapeutic wellbeing and community cohesion; animal welfare programs promoting compassionate care; and food poverty responses via food banks, community kitchens, and outreach tackling food insecurity for families in crisis, carers, and isolated individuals, alongside carer support, family support, and holistic welfare services emphasizing person-centred, preventative, and community-led approaches.

With no narrow exclusions beyond UK-registered charities, it prioritizes beneficiaries including children aged 5-19 with SEND, families caring for disabled children, young people facing exclusion, carers experiencing exhaustion, elderly in hospices, and communities addressing poverty or isolation. Distinctive for its family-led flexibility supporting grassroots and established organizations alike, low-profile openness to emerging needs, and emphasis on unrestricted core funding, capital grants, and reinvestment in core sectors like health, disability, youth work, arts, and welfare without mandating evidence-based or innovation-only criteria.