Helping our partners make a lasting difference to peoples’ lives
About Us
LFT Charitable Trust was established to promote and support charitable purposes and activities. Our Trust is intended to be exclusively grant making, with no fundraising or operating activities. We are funded by donations from Alterity Investments.
Grant Making
LFT Charitable Trust is a proactive funder. We build our knowledge by talking to and meeting with individuals and organisations working within our priority areas. Where we identify opportunities and the prospect of a project that aligns with our current grant making policy, we invite proposals for funding.
We don’t encourage unsolicited applications.
Nurtured by Nature Grantmaking Programme
Research continues to demonstrate the value of nature in improving health and wellbeing outcomes for people of all ages. Nature based interventions (NBI’s) can facilitate behavioural change through a structured promotion of nature based experiences and in doing so promote improved physical, mental and social health and wellbeing.
The aim of this LFT Grant making Programme is to promote and harness the well-established links between the environment and wellbeing and to support organisations to increase community engagement and connectivity with nature for mutual benefit.
Mind Matters Grantmaking Programme 2024
Waiting lists for mental health services in Northern Ireland have not significantly improved in the 18 months since LFT publicised its previous call for Mind Matters applications.
The aim of this LFT Grant making Programme is to support charities to temporarily increase their capacity to offer counselling and other psychological therapies and expedite care to adults on their waiting lists.
Partners Showcase
Identifying the right network of dedicated and ambitious partners has enabled us to deliver on our charitable purposes and activities. Here are just some of the life-changing projects that our grant partners have been involved in.
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Sólás
Initially established in 2009 as a charity supporting children and young people with a broad range of additional needs including autism and ASD.
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South Belfast Foodbank
Responsible for providing over 270,000 meals to people in crisis and for the distribution of over 200 tonnes of food.
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Flourish NI
Helping survivors of human trafficking not only recover from their traumatic experiences but also to regain self-belief and new skills so that they can lead safe, independent and fulfilled lives.