Truemark Trust

Truemark Trust, established in 1973, embodies a mission to relieve social distress and disadvantage by empowering small grassroots charities delivering neighbourhood-based interventions for overlooked communities. Core values of practical compassion, innovation, and equity drive funding toward neglected causes and individuals facing hardship who evade mainstream support, fostering incremental tangible improvements through community-led action. Their philosophy trusts cumulative impact from enabling local projects addressing unmet needs, prioritizing authentic partnerships with embedded grassroots organizations over scaled initiatives.

They support broad social welfare activities including advice and information services for poverty and economic disadvantage, befriending and mentoring schemes combating social isolation among elderly residents and disabled people, citizenship programs building community cohesion, education and training initiatives tackling youth unemployment and skills gaps for young people aged 16-25, mental health care through counselling and peer support groups, health education promoting wellbeing, sport physical activity and recreation enabling inclusion for people with physical disabilities learning disabilities or sensory impairments, and social care interventions for children women and girls facing ill-health disability or family crisis. Funded projects encompass community education projects respite care for families caring for disabled children after-school clubs therapeutic activities like accessible boating outdoor pursuits and creative arts for autism spectrum disorder ADHD complex health needs, drop-in centres addressing food insecurity homelessness prevention domestic abuse recovery carer support refugee integration and employment training for care leavers ethnic minorities and rural communities, emphasizing preventative community-led person-centred approaches yielding real-world participation independence and resilience.

Exclusions encompass core funding salaries general running costs and non-community-based activities; they avoid headline initiatives duplicating statutory services. Distinctive priorities target unfashionable causes grassroots charities serving isolated individuals limited-option groups like sensory-impaired elderly disabled children young people in poverty and women experiencing exclusion, favouring innovative practical solutions from lived-experience-led local organizations delivering holistic early intervention over evidence-heavy large-scale programs.