Kristina Martin Charitable Trust

The Kristina Martin Charitable Trust champions mental well-being and tackles pressing mental health challenges through compassionate, hope-driven philanthropy rooted in transforming personal loss into societal resilience. Established in memory of Kristina Martin, it embodies values of compassion, hope, resilience, and combating social injustices exacerbating mental ill-health. Funding decisions prioritize innovative, scalable interventions fostering measurable impact, youth leadership, lived experience voices, and sector-wide learning, believing change arises from targeted support addressing interconnected drivers like isolation, digital harms, and homelessness via practical, community-empowered solutions.

It sharply focuses on breaking homelessness-mental health links through prevention services and embedded therapeutic programmes for homeless people; mitigating social media harms including online bullying and digital exclusion via awareness training, digital literacy, and safe online resilience-building for children and young people; combating social isolation and loneliness through community hubs, befriending, peer support groups, and outreach for isolated individuals; and enhancing youth mental health outcomes with early intervention, resilience training, suicide prevention, grief counselling, teacher/parent/community worker training, school-based mental health support, and youth-driven initiatives tackling anxiety, depression, and crises. Supported activities encompass preventative peer-led models, trauma-informed counselling, holistic therapeutic activities, advocacy for digital harms, community-led hubs fostering connections, and capacity-building for scalable mental health services prioritizing children, young people, homeless individuals, and those facing grief or exclusion.

Exclusions emphasize non-mental health projects lacking clear impact alignment, favouring instead charities demonstrating robust governance, outcomes, and innovation over duplicative efforts. Distinctive priorities spotlight youth and lived experience leadership in programme design, flexibility for core costs tied to delivery, and holistic approaches linking mental health with social drivers like homelessness prevention and isolation reduction. It uniquely amplifies smaller organizations voicing marginalized needs—homeless people, digitally excluded youth, grieving families, lonely elderly—through resilient, hope-infused, evidence-based interventions scalable across communities.