Len Pick Trust

The Len Pick Trust is a community-rooted grantmaker inspired by the philanthropic legacy of local farmer and benefactor Len Pick, dedicated to delivering tangible, long-term enhancements to quality of life, well-being, and environment for Bourne inhabitants. Core values emphasize discreet stewardship, accountability, transparency, adaptability to evolving local needs, and practical community empowerment, believing sustainable change arises from evidence-based, collaborative projects strengthening social fabric, heritage, and resilience through grassroots initiatives with measurable local impact and partnership funding.

It supports diverse community benefit activities including youth mental health support through counselling and wellbeing programs for young people experiencing anxiety or isolation, elderly care via day centres, befriending, and social activities combating loneliness for older residents, education enhancements like IT equipment, libraries, and after-school resources for children and families, emergency medical provision such as defibrillator installations and first-aid training for community safety, recreational facilities including outdoor swimming pools and sports for all ages promoting physical health and social connection, environmental projects like nature conservation and green spaces fostering biodiversity and wellbeing, cultural heritage events celebrating local history through parades and community days, and infrastructure regeneration for town halls enabling inclusive gatherings. Prioritizes interventions delivering preventative health, therapeutic recreation, peer support, capacity building, and holistic family support addressing social isolation, poverty relief, and access barriers in rural settings.

Exclusively funds projects benefiting Bourne town and immediate surrounding villages, rejecting any non-local applications to preserve hyper-local impact. Distinctive for absolute geographic fidelity, broad generalist remit responsive to all ages—prioritizing children, young people, elderly, and families—via sustainable, collaborative models enhancing social cohesion, heritage preservation, and environmental stewardship; favors grassroots groups with deep community ties demonstrating long-term benefit, other-funding leverage, and evidence of cultural or wellbeing uplift over dependency-creating aid.