The Royal Docks Trust (London) was established and registered as a charity in March 1995. It works to provide community benefits to the Docklands part of Newham between the A13 and the River Thames. 

The Trust is structured to ensure its Board is representative of local businesses, community organisations and residents as well as members appointed by Newham Council.

Grants Programmes: The Trust uses the income from its core £2,700,000 endowment to run each winter a community grants programme in partnership wi th Newham Council. Minor grants, up to £1500, are available all the year round.  The grants programme is administered by Newham Council who provide a quarter of the cost of the grants each year.

Projects: The Trust also has the income earned on funds left with the Trust by the former London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to implement some of their unfulfilled social projects and also from the community lands where the LDDC left the freehold interest wih the Trust when it was wound up in 1998. The Trust uses these unrestricted funds for a variety of local ventures, often in pertnership with other agencies

Into the future: The ongoing regeneration of Newham's Docklands presents many opportunities for the Trust, and for those who are working with it, to ensure that local communities contribute to the ongoing regeneration of the area and benefit from it. Again the keynote will be partnership with Newham Council and other local agancies, as well as developers.