Purpose and Aims

 

The purpose of the St Pancras Welfare Trust is to help people who live in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras when faced with need or sickness and have nowhere else to turn. The area of benefit lies within the heart of the London Borough of Camden and includes some of the most densely populated parts of the borough, many with high indicators of poverty and need. 

 

The most common request is to help people being re-housed - perhaps after years of living rough, living in a hostel or after leaving an institution.  They have no resources or possessions and their new homes are usually cold and bare. We help by making small grants in cash or vouchers to buy furniture, bedding and clothes. 

 

We also receive requests to help young mums and their children, the frail and elderly and those in need of respite. A separate trust, the Camelot Trust, supports holidays for disadvantaged young children.

 

In the year ending 31st March 2009 the Trust received 257 applications on behalf of individuals and was able to support 215. In addition, 40 families were helped at Christmas time with food vouchers. Overall grants helped 247 adults and 475 children. The Trust also helped three local projects furthering the aims of the Trust.

 

PowerPoint Presentation

 

Application form (Word document)