Grant giving

In the wider community, we work with individuals, organisations and communities to improve the lives of older people in the region, through joint projects and funding for organisations and individuals.

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.

Under the banner of the charitable foundation the St Monica Trust aims to improve the standard of care that we provide for older people, both within the Trust and nationally, through the establishment of a sector-leading Care Academy at the Somerdale Pavilion in Keynsham. The Academy will look beyond statutory requirements and provide people with the skills to deliver the best outcomes for older people within the services they work.