Foundations Independent Living Trust

Our mission is to help vulnerable people to live with dignity in their own homes.

We achieve this by supporting the work of local Home Improvement Agencies and other organisations that help people keep their homes safe, secure and in good repair.

Our key objectives are:

To provide direct help for adaptations, repairs and home improvements for the most vulnerable of Home Improvement Agency clients.
To provide practical support to Home Improvement Agencies and other organisations that help vulnerable people to live with dignity in their own homes.
To conduct research, publish information and organise events that raise awareness of, and seek solutions for, the problems facing vulnerable homeowners and private sector tenants.

Our first priority when we launched in 2003 was to establish a Fast Track Hardship Fund that would complement existing funds for home improvement, targeted at the most vulnerable homeowners needing urgent small improvements. The fund enables local Home Improvement Agencies to move quickly when the existing sources of financial support do not meet a person’s needs. Following the successful pilot scheme, this now operates as a small fund.

Our secondary priorities are:

To provide practical support for Home Improvement Agencies in delivering their services to vulnerable people, such as training, disseminating good practice, improving information technology capacity, and collective purchasing.
To support research programmes that will improve understanding and promote solutions to the problems facing vulnerable people who need to adapt or repair their homes.

Who are we?

The Foundations Independent Living Trust is a registered charity; No: 1103784.

There are currently 6 independent Trustees – the Rt Hon Sir George Young Bt MP (Chairman), Derek Waddington OBE, JP, Lesley Bentley, Mark Boleat, David Priestnall and John Hallsworth. Martin Everitt is Secretary of the Trust. For more information about the Trustees please view the Trustees page.

The Foundations Independent Living Trust was initiated, and is currently administered by, Foundations, the Government-appointed National Co-ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies. It is this link that places us in a unique position to help people quickly and effectively through the 250 agencies delivering services in over 320 local communities.

To find out more about the Hardship Fund, you can also download our leaflet on accessing the fund.