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	About Turners Court Youth Trust

THE TRUST’S BACKGROUND

Turners Court Youth Trust is a well-established children’s charity with a long and distinguished history. For the past 96 years the Trust has provided direct services for disadvantaged children and young people in the Thames Valley and elsewhere. It has recently changed its focus and become a grant-making trust.

The charity was originally established in 1911 at Turners Court, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, which provided training in agriculture for unemployed and unemployable young men. Since those early days nearly a century ago, Turners Court Youth Trust has seen many changes in the social services sector. It has up-dated and adapted its programme of support to meet the needs of an ever-changing society.

In recent years, the charity has become a community resource aiming to prevent the development of social exclusion. It has successfully invested in the development of three main programmes, all of which have been widely used:


	Parents As First Teachers - an early intervention programme providing parenting education and support for parents of children from 0-5 years;


	Reading LINKS Project - which provides direct support for vulnerable children aged 5-12 and their families in Reading primary schools;


	Reading Children’s Fund - a national, Government-funded initiative, which provides services for disadvantaged children and young people between the ages of 5-13.

All these programmes have now been successfully handed over to other public, private and voluntary organisations where they have been incorporated into other existing areas of national, regional and local support for vulnerable children and young people.

THE TRUST TODAY

Turners Court Youth Trust now makes a small number of grants available each year to charities and community groups to help them make a positive difference to the lives of the vulnerable and disadvantaged children with whom they work.

Turners Court Youth Trust believes that all children and young people have a right to learn, grow, develop and reach their full potential.

The Trust wishes to enable disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people to overcome the barriers they experience in achieving educational and life success.

It is essential that all grant applications share these beliefs and values and reflect the Trust’s charitable objects, which are:

To provide and assist in the provision, care and support for children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties;
To advance the education of children and young people so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities to enable them to grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society, in particular but not exclusively, those children and young people with emotional or behavioural problems.

The phrase “young people” shall be construed to refer to people aged 16 years and under.

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