Percy Bilton Charity

The Percy Bilton Charity is a grant-making trust rooted in a philanthropic mission to relieve hardship and enhance quality of life for the most disadvantaged through targeted provision of essential capital items. Guided by values of compassion, direct need-response, and efficient resource allocation, it prioritizes practical interventions that deliver immediate, tangible relief from material deprivation. Its distinctive philosophy emphasizes one-off grants for completable projects yielding clear outcomes in independence, dignity, and daily living, believing that concrete assets like furniture and equipment transform living conditions for vulnerable individuals unable to self-provide.

It supports charities delivering essential items to disadvantaged youth including children and young people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, chronic health needs, and complex conditions; adults enduring severe mental health problems such as enduring mental illness; and low-income older people over 65 facing isolation or poverty. Funded activities focus on capital equipment like beds, specialist seating, hoists, sensory tools, white goods, furniture, and mobility-adapted minibuses enabling transport for elderly residents or disabled groups to access day services, respite care, or community activities. Interventions address immediate gaps in residential care setups, independent living aids, and therapeutic equipment supporting person-centred care for autism spectrum needs, ADHD management, physical mobility challenges, and mental health recovery, fostering greater autonomy, reduced distress, and participation in peer support or befriending programs.

Exclusions encompass revenue funding, running costs, staffing, ongoing service delivery, general office items, or incomplete projects, prioritizing fully realizable capital needs over long-term operations. Distinctive for its laser focus on material hardship relief via one-off asset provision, it favors organizations directly equipping beneficiaries like families caring for disabled children, isolated elderly in care homes, or mental health service users, across urban and rural UK communities, with post-grant accountability ensuring measurable enhancements in living standards and wellbeing.