Lidbury Family Trust

The Lidbury Family Trust is a generalist grant-making trust advancing exclusively charitable purposes through trustees' absolute discretion, prioritizing flexible philanthropy for registered charities and voluntary organizations. Core values emphasize breadth, adaptability, and enduring support for mainstream charitable missions, believing sustainable impact arises from empowering proven organizations with unrestricted grants, project funding, and core costs. Their approach fosters authentic partnerships with established charities, enabling capacity building, innovation, and community empowerment across diverse voluntary sector needs without thematic constraints.

They support expansive charitable activities including medical research for cancer and diabetes, health services addressing complex health needs, mental health counselling, therapy, and peer support groups for anxiety, depression, and addiction recovery; disability interventions like respite care, day services, therapeutic activities, and inclusive programs for autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, ADHD, physical disabilities; youth work with after-school clubs, mentoring, employment training, and early intervention for young people aged 5-19 facing barriers; elderly care via befriending, residential care, and social isolation relief; family support, carer respite, sibling programs; poverty relief, food insecurity aid, homelessness prevention; SEND education, advocacy, community-led outreach, creative arts, sports, helplines, drop-in centres for refugees, care leavers, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, veterans, rural communities, and isolated individuals using person-centred, trauma-informed, preventative, holistic, evidence-based models.

With no thematic or beneficiary exclusions, they prioritize registered charities delivering broadly recognized charitable impacts, favoring major national health research bodies, mainstream voluntary organizations, and established providers of core services. Distinctive for professionalized oversight, willingness to fund unrestricted core costs alongside projects, and openness to diverse interventions from therapeutic health support to community development, setting them apart as a versatile backer of resilient England and Wales charities tackling systemic challenges through flexible, high-trust grantmaking.