Frontiers Charitable Trust

Frontiers Charitable Trust, established in October 1997 as registered charity number 3943323, serves as the financial and legal backbone for King’s Church in Eastbourne, Sussex. Deeply rooted in Christian values, its core mission is to advance the Christian faith while delivering holistic community impact through religious services, evangelism, education, poverty relief, amateur sport, and support for children, youth, elderly, disabled individuals, and the wider public. It emphasizes spiritual teaching, mentoring, pastoral care, local outreach, and practical social action, often via church-led programs, property management for community spaces, and collaborations with aligned local partners, all underpinned by robust safeguarding and governance.

The trust funds religious, educational, and community initiatives that blend faith with tangible welfare benefits, including core costs, project funding, capital for community facilities, and direct grants for social action targeting deprived or marginalized groups in East and West Sussex, particularly around Eastbourne. Beneficiaries are primarily grassroots organizations, small to medium community groups, or individuals closely affiliated with King’s Church or its initiatives.

Eligibility is highly selective: it does not accept unsolicited applications, favoring entities aligned with Christian ethos operating strictly in East or West Sussex; no strict income thresholds apply, but recipients are typically small, local, faith-motivated groups. Grants, awarded ad hoc by a board of six trustees at their discretion, range from several hundred to several thousand pounds annually (total low tens of thousands), with no published deadlines, rounds, or open processes—funding supports pre-identified church-connected programs only.

Distinctively, unlike open grant-makers, Frontiers reinvests internally generated funds (donations, legacies, trading) into Sussex-specific transformation, prioritizing integrated faith-community service over broad philanthropy, excluding unrelated or non-local causes.