Morel Charitable Trust

The Morel Charitable Trust embodies a family-rooted philanthropic legacy from the Morel and Gibbs families, dedicated to fostering creativity, cultural vibrancy, social inclusion, and global interconnectedness through targeted support for arts, race relations, and international initiatives. Core values emphasize artistic excellence, challenging prejudice, building harmonious diverse communities, and humanitarian outreach, with a grantmaking philosophy rooted in trustee discretion, generational stewardship, and enduring impact via high-quality, aligned projects that cultivate creativity as a catalyst for empathy, cohesion, and cross-cultural understanding.

Prioritizing the arts—especially drama and theatre—it funds creative arts programs, theatre productions, drama workshops, and performing arts initiatives that engage communities through storytelling, performance, and cultural expression to inspire empathy and social connection. In race relations, it supports interventions addressing racial inequality, prejudice reduction, intercultural dialogue, community cohesion programs, anti-discrimination advocacy, and relationship-building activities for ethnic minorities, BAME communities, and diverse populations facing exclusion or tension. For international projects, it backs humanitarian aid, global development efforts, cross-border collaboration, refugee support initiatives, and overseas community empowerment programs tackling poverty, displacement, and intercultural challenges. Valued activities include community-led arts events promoting inclusion, peer-facilitated dialogue groups fostering racial harmony, therapeutic drama for emotional resilience, outreach training on diversity, and partnership-driven international aid delivering sustainable impact through cultural exchange and mutual understanding.

Exclusions encompass projects outside arts/drama, race relations, or international development, such as general education, health services, or environmental work without thematic alignment. Distinctive for its multi-generational family governance, niche drama emphasis, and blend of UK-focused social cohesion with global humanitarianism, it prioritizes established charities serving ethnic minorities in urban diverse communities, isolated immigrant groups, and international beneficiaries in crisis regions, favoring excellence-driven, culturally resonant interventions over broad social services.