Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Henry Smith Charity is pleased to announce an open call for the Holiday Grant Programme.
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 funding.
Funding Information
- They award grants of between £500 and £2,500 only.
- Note: Please note that if they are able to make a grant towards your organisation, they may not be able to award you the full amount requested
What they do not fund?
- Trips outside of the UK
- Trips to theme parks or similar high cost attractions
- 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
- Trips for individual children
- Organisations that provide Children’s Holidays
- The running costs of play or holiday schemes- this includes funding towards a range of non-specific trips or activities
- Trips that have already taken place
- Trips to pantomimes
- Trips to sports events
- Organisations with an income or expenditure of over £2m except schools
Eligibility Criteria
- They prioritise applications that will benefit disadvantaged or disabled children living in the most deprived areas of the UK.
- 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 must be outside the children's immediate locality.
- 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.
- Please note that sometimes they do consider applications for groups of children living in deprived circumstances within more affluent areas.
- 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 their overall assessment.
- Grants are made on a first come first served basis until the available funding for that round has been fully allocated. You must apply at least six weeks before your trip or holiday is due to take place.
For more information, visit Henry Smith Charity.
For more information, visit https://www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk/explore-our-grants-and-apply/holiday-grants-for-children/holiday-grants-for-children-funding-guidelines/