East Court Charitable Trust

East Court Charitable Trust is an established UK grant-making trust with a founding mission to advance general charitable purposes, including health and saving lives, overseas aid and famine relief, and environment, conservation, or heritage protection. Core values emphasize flexible stewardship, impartiality, transparency, and inclusive support for vulnerable populations, believing sustainable impact arises from adaptable funding of diverse interventions that deliver clear public benefit through health promotion, crisis relief, and environmental stewardship. They prioritize partnerships with charities demonstrating alignment with these priorities via community empowerment, preventative health measures, and cross-generational resilience.

They fund health advancement projects addressing mental health counselling, therapy for complex health needs, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and ADHD in children aged 5-19 and young people aged 16-25, including respite care, after-school clubs, therapeutic activities, peer support groups, and person-centred interventions to prevent family carer exhaustion and promote emotional wellbeing. Support extends to elderly care combating social isolation through day services, befriending, and holistic activities for older people with mobility challenges or dementia. Overseas aid and famine relief target food insecurity, poverty alleviation, and emergency support for refugees and families in crisis via community kitchens and outreach. Environment and conservation initiatives include habitat restoration, green space preservation, heritage education, and climate resilience projects fostering community-led outdoor activities and youth environmental training. They back disability inclusion via advocacy, employment training for care leavers with disabilities, and family support groups addressing domestic abuse recovery intertwined with health needs.

Exclusions encompass activities outside core objects like non-charitable purposes or unrelated sectors; no evidence supports capital builds or major unrestricted grants. Distinctive for its generalist ethos enabling broad thematic flexibility, they prioritize vulnerable children, young people at risk of exclusion, isolated elderly, cross-generational families, and rural communities in England and Wales facing health disparities, conservation threats, or relief needs, favoring evidence-based, trauma-informed, and grassroots organizations with lived experience leadership.