Deadline: 28 February 2019
The Henry Smith Charity is seeking applications for the Holiday Grants programme for recreational trips and holidays for groups of children aged 13 and under in the UK who are disabled or disadvantaged.
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 our funding.
The Henry Smith Charity is an independent grant making trust. They aim to bring about lasting change to people’s lives helping them benefit from and contribute to society.
The charity was founded in 1628 by Henry Smith, a businessman working in the City of London. Since then, they have honoured the spirit of Henry Smith’s will, working to combat disadvantage and meet the challenges and opportunities facing people in need throughout the UK. Today, The Henry Smith Charity is amongst the largest independent grant makers in the UK, distributing over £30 million in 2017.
Funding Information
- The grant size will be £500 – £2,500.
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
- Multiple trips
- Trips with a focus on education rather than fun
- Trips for families
- Trips for individual children
- Organisations that provide Children’s Holidays
- The running costs of play or holiday schemes
- 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
- Schools, youth groups, not for profit organisations and charities are all eligible to apply.
- The trust prioritizes applications that will benefit disadvantaged or disabled children living in the most deprived areas of the UK.
Eligibility Quiz
- In order to help applicants to identify whether they fit the criteria they have an eligibility quiz which applicants must answer before they can access the form. This is to help ensure that they do not waste their time applying if they are not eligible for support. Please answer all the questions and submit their response.
- If their responses show that their proposal will not meet our guidelines, applicants will not be able to make an application.
- If applicants responses show that their proposal will meet our guidelines, they will be able to access our Holiday Grants form to make an application.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For further information, please visit https://bit.ly/2sf1M5m