Local Community

STF Mission Statement

The Standing Tall Foundation promote the mental and physical health of all community groups through the provision of counselling, addiction support and physical activity initiatives. We further extend this support into the community to help those in financial hardship, including the homeless, via the provision of grants, items and services using the resources secured by the Foundation or those made available to us.

North West Waste Partnership

We are proud to have become a partner of The Standing Tall Foundation as they are making a real difference in the local Community of St. Helen’s and beyond. Having recently achieved Charity Status, it is great to see the services they now offer including Mental Health Counselling and Addiction Support to help people most in need.

St. Helens, 12 January 2022

We are ecstatic to announce that The Standing Tall Foundation in St Helens has been officially registered as a charity with the Charity Commission. This comes after many months of hard work and effort, not only into the application process, but more the invaluable work undertaken to help people in the community and surrounding areas, which has ultimately established the organisation as a credible and reputable registered charity. The Standing Tall Foundation offers vital support to promote the physical and mental wellbeing of people, providing expert counselling, drug & alcohol dependency support services and physical activity initiatives. In addition to this, the charity aims to help relieve poverty among the homeless or those in financial difficulty via the provision of grants, items and services for those individuals in need.

Founder of the organisation, Andy Reid MBE says: “I’m delighted to announce that after nearly two years of helping the people of my town and beyond, my Foundation has been given Charity Status. We feel this news is a vindication of the hard work that myself and the Team have put in. Mental health and addiction illnesses are a blight on many people’s lives, and we are dedicated to helping as many people as possible to overcome this. We look to support individuals when they’re most in need and among those helped, it has been deeply meaningful to me to be able to help veterans and young people. These are of course close to my heart, as I see my lived experience in them.”

The welcome news is a great start to the new year for the Standing Tall Foundation as it continues to grow, and as Andy states: “Achieving charitable status affords anyone wishing to support what we do, the confidence in our integrity and the assurance that we are making a difference. As the Standing Tall Foundation, charity number: 1197446 we look forward to helping many more people in the years to come.”