Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust

The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust embodies a family-founded vision of community wellbeing, prioritizing quality of life enhancements, opportunity creation, and environmental stewardship for regional populations through targeted charitable support. Core values emphasize community engagement, sustained partnerships, thoughtful stewardship, and tangible local impact, believing lasting change arises from grassroots initiatives, heritage preservation, and direct beneficiary relationships that foster development and resilience. Their grantmaking philosophy favors flexible, relationship-driven funding for projects, capital appeals, and core costs, empowering charities to deliver holistic, community-led interventions with trustee oversight ensuring accountability and progress.

They support youth development for children and young people through after-school clubs, mentoring, and skills training addressing barriers to opportunity and social exclusion; disability services including respite care, day activities, and inclusive programs for individuals with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and complex health needs; health initiatives encompassing hospice care, chronic illness support like liver conditions, mental health counselling, and therapeutic interventions; elderly care via befriending, social activities, and isolation prevention for older residents; arts programs featuring creative arts, music therapy, and cultural engagement building confidence and community cohesion; environment and heritage efforts through conservation, outdoor activities, green space enhancement, and public education promoting heritage access and ecological awareness. Interventions valued include person-centred care, preventative community outreach, peer support groups, therapeutic activities, and holistic family support tackling poverty, health disparities, social isolation, and environmental degradation in underserved areas.

Exclusions encompass staff salaries, organizations with commercial funding potential, large pension deficits, and national charities lacking strong local operations. Distinctive priorities target urban industrial communities, rural heritage sites, families caring for disabled children, isolated elderly, youth at risk, and hospice patients, favoring grassroots charities demonstrating local relevance, community benefit, evidence-based practice, and alignment with children’s development, disability inclusion, elderly wellbeing, arts vitality, health resilience, or heritage conservation for enduring regional transformation.