Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust

The Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust is a historic grantmaker rooted in longstanding community charities, dedicated to alleviating poverty, relieving hardship, distress, and advancing physical and mental health for vulnerable residents. Its core values emphasize equity, community support, and targeted wellbeing improvements, driven by a philosophy of addressing poverty-health intersections through practical relief for the sick, convalescent, disabled, infirm, and those facing debt or deprivation. It champions grassroots organizations delivering direct interventions, believing sustainable impact arises from local knowledge, strategic partnerships, and empowering deprived communities to overcome acute needs via core costs and project support.

It prioritizes poverty relief and debt advice services preventing financial crisis for families and elderly residents experiencing hardship, homelessness relief including emergency shelter and housing support for individuals at risk of rough sleeping, mental health services such as counselling, peer support groups, and therapeutic activities for children, young people, older people, and parents of disabled children addressing anxiety, isolation, and trauma, disability support encompassing respite care, day services, and advocacy for people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, and complex health needs, family carer support for those managing caring responsibilities amid poverty, and community-led outreach tackling social isolation, food insecurity, and health inequities in deprived neighbourhoods. Funded interventions include after-school clubs and mentoring for young people facing barriers, befriending schemes for isolated elderly, helplines for debt and mental health crises, and holistic person-centred approaches like early intervention and preventative debt management to foster resilience and independence.

Exclusions encompass general appeals, taxes, fines, or activities not directly benefiting local residents, prioritizing instead the most deprived communities with acute poverty-health overlaps. Distinctive for funding both organizations and individuals, including specific items for personal needs, it favors grassroots groups with deep local ties, demonstrated impact on vulnerable beneficiaries like care leavers, ethnic minorities in crisis, and families supporting disabled children, valuing evidence-based, community-led, trauma-informed practices over national or duplicative efforts.