Martin Geddes Charitable Trust

The Martin Geddes Charitable Trust embodies a memorial mission to protect and promote health for individuals suffering from, at risk of, or affected by drug or alcohol problems, alongside their families and communities. Founded on values of compassion, recovery empowerment, harm reduction, and resilience-building, it prioritizes twelve-step philosophy and peer-supported methodologies as pathways to lasting sobriety and wellbeing. Funding decisions emphasize evidence-based recovery interventions that foster personal transformation, family restoration, and community healing through partnerships with frontline charities delivering proven, holistic support.

It funds addiction recovery services including twelve-step programs, peer support groups, and residential recovery communities for adults overcoming substance misuse, practical interventions like counselling and therapeutic activities for individuals in active recovery from alcohol or drug dependency, family support initiatives addressing ripple effects of addiction such as trauma-informed counselling and resilience-building workshops for partners and dependents, specialized aid for children and young people impacted by parental alcoholism through helplines, befriending, and emotional support groups, men's recovery programs promoting sobriety, life skills training, and reintegration, and public health advancements intersecting with poverty relief for those facing addiction-related deprivation. Supported models include day services, outreach, drop-in centres, and core costs for recovery-focused organizations, prioritizing person-centred, community-led approaches that advance sobriety, family cohesion, mental health stabilization, and prevention of relapse in at-risk populations.

Exclusions encompass prevention campaigns, non-specialist activities, and projects lacking recovery orientation or twelve-step alignment, focusing instead on direct recovery support over broad awareness efforts. Distinctive for its unwavering dedication to sufferers, families, and children affected by substance misuse—especially via peer-led, twelve-step interventions—it prioritizes charities with lived experience leadership serving adults in recovery, children of alcoholics, and families in crisis, emphasizing holistic recovery that sustains health outcomes and breaks intergenerational addiction cycles.