Deadline: 19-Nov-2024
The Henry Smith Charity is currently accepting application for the Holiday Grants Programme 2024.
The purpose of the Holiday Grants programme is to provide access to recreational trips or holidays for groups of children who experience disadvantage or who have disabilities. In particular they are interested in contributing to trips that would not take place without the funding.
Funding Information
- They award grants of between £500 and £2,750 only.
Eligibility Criteria
- Schools, youth groups, not for profit organisations and charities are all eligible to apply.
- Applications can be made for grants towards a single trip, which could be a day trip or a longer residential of up to seven days in length. This could be to a countryside or city location but ideally should be outside the children’s immediate locality. They will consider trips which are more local but these should have an emphasis on providing a new experience for the children and broadening their horizons. Examples include camping, trips to adventure activity centres or the seaside.
- Grants are only available to support children who are aged 13 and under. Grants are not available for individuals or families, whether this is a single family or a larger group of several families.
- It is very important to them that the funds are targeted at children experiencing disadvantage. By this, they mean those who are located in an area of high deprivation, according to the National Indices of Deprivation. In particular they are interested in funding trips for children in geographical areas that fall within the bottom 20% of these indices. They are also interested in assisting those children who do not have any contributions towards the costs of the trip from their parent/s or carer/s. It is important to them that no child be excluded on financial grounds from a trip they are supporting and all grants are awarded on this condition.
- Please note that sometimes they do consider applications for groups of children living in deprived circumstances within more affluent areas. In this case, it is essential that the need for support is clearly explained.
- For groups of children with disabilities, they are able to be more flexible regarding the level of deprivation, although they still do take it into account as one factor in the overall assessment.
Ineligible
- Trips outside of the UK
- Trips to theme parks, sports events or f similar high cost attraction
- Trips that have already taken place
- Trips for children over the age of 13
- Trips with a focus on education rather than fun
- Museum, cultural or theatre trips to meet curriculum requirements
- Trips for families
- Organisations with an income or expenditure of over £2m except schools
- Trips for individual children
- Organisations that provide Childrenʼs Holidays
- The running costs of play or holiday schemes- this includes contribution towards an organisation’s regular planned activities
- Organisations that are unable to provide a copy of their most recent audited or independently inspected annual accounts, or if you are a school, your latest school inspection report
For more information, visit The Henry Smith Charity.
