Spurrell Charitable Trust

The Spurrell Charitable Trust embodies traditional charitable values of stewardship, prudence, and enduring commitment to alleviating disadvantage through steady, unrestricted support for established charities serving vulnerable populations. Guided by family trustees, its mission prioritizes root cause interventions over symptomatic relief, fostering organizational sustainability and long-term impact via repeat partnerships with proven providers. It believes sustainable change arises from bolstering core operations of charities addressing systemic barriers for children, young people, elderly individuals, and people with disabilities, emphasizing equity, reliability, and conservative philanthropy.

It funds core activities for children and young people including those in care, care leavers, and at risk of exclusion through youth work, mentoring, after-school clubs, residential care, and transitional support to prevent homelessness and family breakdown; elderly care encompassing day services, befriending, social isolation relief, and residential provision for seniors with mobility issues or dementia; disability services for people with physical disabilities, neurological conditions like Parkinson's, learning disabilities, complex health needs, autism spectrum disorder, and ADHD via therapeutic activities, respite care, peer support groups, counselling, advocacy, employment training, and inclusive community outreach. Prioritizing preventative, person-centred, trauma-informed approaches, it supports holistic interventions tackling poverty, social isolation, carer exhaustion, youth unemployment, and barriers to independence, favouring community-led day centres, helplines, creative arts, sports programs, and family support to build resilience and enable participation.

Exclusions include project-based funding, capital campaigns, innovation initiatives, new or unproven organizations, aftercare rather than root causes, and direct service delivery. Distinctive for long-term repeat grants to a stable portfolio of national and regional charities, especially those strengthening local Norfolk communities, it seeks established providers with evidence-based, sustainable models prioritizing children aged 5-25, isolated elderly, families caring for disabled members, and adults with chronic neurological or physical disabilities, upholding values of discretion, family governance, and unwavering focus on core sustainability over transient relief.