Tresanton Trust

The Tresanton Trust is an independent grantmaking charity dedicated to making positive, enduring differences by supporting organizations that improve lives, alleviate hardship, and protect the natural world. Guided by values of sustained impact, long-term partnerships, and trustee-led discretion, it prioritizes charities demonstrating alignment with core ethos through multi-year commitments fostering continuity, resilience, and deep-rooted change. Believing lasting transformation arises from investing in proven interventions and relational stability rather than transient aid, it empowers select partners delivering holistic, evidence-informed solutions for vulnerable populations and ecosystems.

It funds children’s welfare initiatives including health projects, poverty relief for families in crisis, and support for children and young people with disabilities facing complex needs; medical research advancing treatments for childhood illnesses and disabilities; social justice programs such as restorative mentoring, rehabilitation, and welfare services for young offenders and prisoners in youth detention facilities; relief of poverty through community-led aid addressing food insecurity, hardship, and family stability; wildlife conservation efforts protecting biodiversity via habitat restoration, species protection, and anti-poaching; and environmental protection promoting sustainable ecosystems, climate resilience, and nature preservation. Supported activities encompass therapeutic mentoring, peer support groups, outreach for isolated families, capacity building for ongoing programme delivery, core costs for organisational stability, and unrestricted aid enabling strategic development, with emphasis on preventative, trauma-informed, and community-empowered interventions creating measurable, long-term outcomes for children aged 5-19, disabled individuals, care-experienced youth, and endangered wildlife.

Exclusions include short-term projects, one-off interventions, large capital builds, and misaligned causes lacking sustained impact potential. It prioritizes beneficiaries like children and young people in hardship, people with physical or learning disabilities, families experiencing poverty, rehabilitating young offenders, and global wildlife populations in biodiverse regions. Distinctive for its relationship-based model, multi-year grants to a curated portfolio of charities, overseas aid integration, and philosophy valuing enduring partnerships over volume, it seeks grassroots and specialist organizations with evidence-based practices, lived-experience insights, and commitment to holistic welfare, justice, and ecological stewardship.