Frimley Fuel Allotments CIO

Frimley Fuel Allotments CIO embodies a historic legacy of relieving poverty, hardship, and distress among local parish residents, originally compensating the poor for lost common land through fuel access, now channeling resources to uplift vulnerable individuals and community organizations fostering wellbeing and deprivation relief. Core values of fairness, community stewardship, and equitable support for the most disadvantaged drive pragmatic, responsive grantmaking, prioritizing proven needs, visible local impact, and grassroots empowerment over rigid prescriptions. They believe sustainable change arises from tailored interventions addressing acute crises, building resilience through direct aid and organizational capacity for health, education, and inclusion.

Thematic priorities target poverty alleviation via emergency financial relief for families facing basic living costs crises, food insecurity, and hardship; disability support including special equipment for physical disabilities, mobility challenges, and complex health needs; advancement of health through crisis interventions and wellbeing services; education and training programs for children and young people tackling disadvantage, exclusion, and skills gaps; elderly care initiatives combating social isolation via befriending, day services, and community activities; and broader relief for ill health, social care, and inclusion. Funded activities encompass direct assistance for individuals with disabilities or acute needs, youth development through after-school clubs, mentoring, and employability training; respite care and therapeutic activities for families caring for disabled children or adults; peer support groups addressing isolation, mental health, and carer exhaustion; health outreach, advocacy, and preventative services; and community-led projects enhancing cohesion for refugees, care leavers, and low-income households, emphasizing person-centred, holistic, early intervention approaches yielding tangible wellbeing gains.

Exclusions encompass national organizations, non-local work, and projects lacking direct parish benefit, focusing solely on residents and groups serving Frimley’s historic parish communities. Distinctive as a legacy funder rooted in local land stewardship, they prioritize grassroots charities with lived experience leadership supporting isolated elderly, families in crisis, disabled people with learning disabilities or physical impairments, young people facing poverty or unemployment, and carers, valuing evidence-based, community-led models preventing escalation of hardship without thematic restrictions beyond local impact.