Cyril and Eve Jumbo Charitable Trust

The Cyril and Eve Jumbo Charitable Trust empowers individuals and communities through education-driven, empathy-based interventions fostering social change, sustainability, and self-sufficiency. Guided by pragmatic values of measurable impact, recipient feedback, and relational trust, they prioritize revenue grants for core costs, capacity building, and programme delivery, believing lasting transformation arises from knowledge transfer, emotional connection, and multi-year partnerships that build organizational resilience and practical outcomes over rigid structures.

They support adolescent and post-adolescent interventions in England targeting young people aged 13-25 facing barriers including homelessness prevention, mental health challenges, disability support, learning disabilities, and social isolation through youth work, mentoring, after-school clubs, therapeutic activities, creative arts programmes, peer support groups, and employability training. Overseas, they fund self-sufficiency initiatives in developing countries addressing poverty alleviation, food insecurity, and community development via education, skills training, knowledge transfer, and humanitarian relief for marginalised communities, refugees, and vulnerable families. Preferred activities encompass empathy-led approaches like counselling, outreach, advocacy, community-led projects, trauma-informed care, and inclusive arts for ethnic minorities, disabled youth, homeless individuals, and those with complex health needs, emphasizing preventative early intervention, person-centred services, and holistic empowerment to enhance resilience, independence, and social cohesion.

They exclude capital projects, unsolicited bids, and impersonal transactional funding, favouring known charities with proven impact and trustee relationships. Distinctive for personal visits, repeat multi-year grants, and flexibility across England-based youth services and international self-sufficiency, they prioritize organisations demonstrating empathy-driven education, sustainability for young people, marginalised groups, and developing world communities, valuing evidence-based practice, grassroots innovation, and lived experience in addressing disability, poverty, homelessness, and humanitarian crises.