About the Creswick Foundation

The Foundation operates on the understanding that the following factors are critical in supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing: 

• Development and learning
• Education
• Physical health
• Family
• Community. 

To achieve its aims, the Foundation funds Fellowships awarded to applicants with relevant knowledge, expertise, and experience in these areas.

• Agency: Children and young people have the right to be consulted on matters that affect them.
• Individual development: Each child and young person has unique characteristics and degrees of resilience and vulnerability.
• Context matters: Factors such as poverty and adverse life events can affect development, learning, identity, and sense of agency.
• Environmental influence: Children develop within an environment; younger children are particularly dependent on parents, family, community, and societal supports.
• Developmental trajectory: Outcomes result from the interaction between a child’s individual characteristics and their environment.

Applications may address any combination of these considerations.