The Henry Smith Charity Holiday Grants for Children
The Henry Smith Charity Holiday Grants for Children - Grants of between £500 and £2,750 are available for UK youth clubs, charities, not-for-profit groups and schools to provide recreational trips or holidays for children aged 13 years and younger who live in an area of high deprivation and are experiencing disability or disadvantage. Coming application deadline Monday 22nd July 2024 but please see more detail and a further application deadline in the text below.
Application deadline: MONDAY 22nd JULY 2024 for trips taking place between Wednesday 1st May and Saturday 31st August 2024. A further application deadline for 2024 is provided in the main text below. Please note that grants tend to be awarded on a “first come” basis until the available budget in each round has been fully allocated. Early application is therefore advised.
The Henry Smith Charity is one of the oldest leading independent grant-makers in the UK, having been founded in 1628. It’s Holiday Grants for Children grant programme is designed to provide children aged 13 years or younger who are disadvantaged, disabled or from areas of high deprivation, with a recreational holiday or outing they would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience. This could be, for example, a day trip or a longer residential of up to 7 days in a countryside or city location, as long as it is outside of the children’s immediate locality and experience. The programme regularly funds trips to the seaside, camping expeditions or visits to adventure activity centres. Trips should focus on enabling children to have fun rather than be for educational purposes.
The Henry Smith Charity has a specific interest in supporting applications benefiting children living in the 20% most deprived areas of the country according to the National Indices of Deprivation. A map showing the Indices of Multiple Deprivation can be found at this LINK.
Registered charities, youth groups, not-for-profit organisations and schools across the UK may apply for a one-off grant of between £500 and £2,750. Grant awards are normally limited to a maximum of 66% of the project cost up to the maximum grant figure of £2,750, so there is a 33% match funding requirement for this scheme.
During the year ended 31st December 2022, the Trust awarded 133 Holiday Grants for Children totalling £263,000. All grants were one-off awards for short holidays and recreational trips for groups of children aged 13 and under in the UK who were disabled or disadvantaged.
Funding is not available for:
o Museum, cultural or theatre trips to meet curriculum requirements.
o Organisations that provide children's holidays.
o Organisations with an income of expenditure of over £2 million (unless a school).
o The running costs of play or holiday schemes - this includes funding towards a range of non-specific trips or activities.
o Trips for children over the age of 13 years.
o Trips for families.
o Trips for individual children.
o Trips outside of the UK.
o Trips that have already taken place.
o Trips with a focus on education rather than fun, or
o Trips to theme parks or similar high cost attractions.
The next deadline for applications is on Monday 22nd July 2024 for trips taking place between Wednesday 1st May and Saturday 31st August 2024
Please note, however, that grants tend to be awarded on a “first come” basis until the available budget in each round has been fully allocated. Early application is therefore advised.
Additional application deadline:
One further application window has been scheduled for 2024. This opens on Friday 12th July and closes on Tuesday 19th November 2024 for trips taking place between Sunday 1st September and Tuesday 31st December 2024.
Further information, guidance and an online application form is available on the Charity’s website.
Contact details for the Charity are:
Holiday Grants for Children
The Henry Smith Charity
6th Floor
65 Leadenhall Street
London
EC3A 2AD
Tel: 020 7264 4970
(The Charity does not advertise an email address.)
