Hayat Trust

Hayat Trust is a UK-registered humanitarian NGO, formally established in 2012 and registered in 2015, founded by individuals committed to supporting the world's most oppressed minorities amid conflict, displacement, and poverty. Based in Birmingham, UK, its core mission is to restore dignity and a decent life to marginalized groups through long-term education, medical relief, and humanitarian aid, guided by values of compassion, human life preservation, diversity respect, and empowerment over dependency. Distinctively focused on ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities like the Rohingya, it prioritizes needs-led interventions in high-deprivation environments, expanding from Southeast Asia to Africa.

The trust funds education advancement for vulnerable children and youth, poverty relief and prevention, health promotion, and disaster aid for refugees, internally displaced persons, the elderly, disabled individuals, and ethnic minorities. It supports direct grants to individuals and organizations, community health/education programs, educational materials, refugee services, and capital projects like facilities, often partnering with grassroots groups for multi-year or emergency responses, emphasizing measurable outcomes in dignity restoration and opportunity access.

Eligible entities include charities and community organizations of varying sizes with no specified income thresholds or geographic base requirements, targeting global projects especially in Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Benin, and Africa. It does not accept unsolicited applications, proactively identifying partners based on mission alignment; no deadlines, rounds, or processes are published, with grant amounts undisclosed but scaled to project needs. Exclusions center on mainstream-accessible causes, favoring acute exclusion; its rights-based, minority-specialized approach differentiates it from generalist funders.