Charitable Foundation

Improving the lives of older people where they live

By using solid, evidence-based findings gathered from the work of the Charitable Foundation, we hope to influence strategic thinkers within the housing and care sectors nationwide.

The Foundation gives the St Monica Trust a clear pathway to achieve its mission of “communities where older people flourish” through connection, contribution and choice.

The current crisis in health and social care, combined with the change in people’s perception of how they want care delivered, has clearly signalled the urgent need for a transformation in our approach to care.

In response to this, under the charitable foundation, the St Monica Trust will sponsor a Centre of Innovation, which will look at defining what modern communities look like for older people and how that translates into a modern care approach. Through innovative projects developed collaboratively with our colleagues and residents, we will determine how to design better community-integrated services, new models of residential and nursing care in the Trust’s villages and care homes, and we will embed useful technology within the Trust and the wider care sector that will allow for higher quality outcomes.

Not only will the findings of the Centre of Innovation benefit the Trust’s residents, colleagues and communities, but they will also be widely shared across the health and social care sector, promoting learning and improvement on a larger scale.