Recently awarded grants
This page features grants made over the past three years through the following grant programmes; Improving Lives, Strengthening Communities, Revenue (now closed), County Grants, Small Grants in the North-East (now closed) and Holiday Grants for Disadvantaged Children.
Under our Improving Lives programme we have six priority areas which include Positive Choices and Employment and Training for example. If you would like to search on any of the priority areas please type the name of the priority area into the keyword search.
360Giving In addition to publishing details of our grants on our website, we have been working with 360Giving to make data about our grant-making freely accessible. This spreadsheet contains details of all the grants we have awarded from 2012 until December 2018, formatted to the 360Giving data standard. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to The Henry Smith Charity.
abandofbrothers
£91,800 | Revenue | South East | Prisoners & Ex-Offenders | 2017Towards three years’ running costs of a mentoring programme for young men involved with the criminal justice system in Sussex, Crawley and Eastbourne
Aberdeen Cyrenians
£80,000 | Revenue | Scotland | Domestic & Sexual Violence | 2016Towards two years’ running costs of the ‘Violence Against Women Project’, providing support to women in Aberdeen affected by gender-based violence or abuse
Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
£30,000 | Revenue | Scotland | Disadvantaged Communities | 2016Towards three years’ running costs of an emergency food bank in Aberdeenshire
Abigail Housing
£104,000 | Revenue | Yorkshire & the Humber | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2017Towards three years’ continuation funding of the Destitution Project Coordinator and Housing Support Worker at a project providing support to refugees and asylum seekers in West Yorkshire
Acacia Family Support
£90,000 | Improving Lives | West Midlands | Mental Health & Wellbeing | 2018Towards three years’ running costs of a project in Birmingham providing emotional and practical support to mothers affected by pre or post-natal depression
Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
Academy FM Thanet
£8,000 | County | South East | Disadvantaged Communities | 2017Towards one year’s running costs of a community radio and media training project in a deprived area of Kent
Accept Mental Health Trust
£10,000 | County | East Midlands | Mental Health & Wellbeing | 2018Towards one year’s running costs of mental health support project in Leicestershire
Access All Areas
£77,200 | Revenue | London | Disability | 2016Towards three years’ continuation funding of the running costs of a theatre and education project for adults with learning disabilities in the London Borough of Hackney
Access Community Trust
£97,400 | Revenue | Eastern | Disadvantaged Communities | 2016Towards three years’ salary of the Wellbeing Practitioner at a project providing support services for vulnerable and socially excluded people in Suffolk and Norfolk
Accessible Arts and Media
£79,000 | Revenue | Yorkshire and the Humber | Disability | 2017Towards three years’ salary of the Creative Director at an education and art project providing support to people with physical disability and learning disabilities in York
Action for Family Carers
£102,800 | Improving Lives | Eastern | Carers | 2018Towards three years’ continuation funding of the salary of a Volunteer Co-ordinator and running costs of a project in Essex providing support, information, counselling and day care to carers
Priority areas
Support Networks and Family
Action for M.E.
£60,000 | Revenue | National | Disability | 2017Towards two years’ running costs of a project providing support and care to individuals with M.E. in the Midlands and the South West
Action Foundation
£133,600 | Revenue | North East | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2017Towards three years’ salary of the Director of Operations at a project providing housing support to destitute asylum seekers in the North East of England
Action with Communities in Rural Kent
£10,000 | County | South East | Homelessness | 2016Towards one year’s running costs of ‘Nature’s Gym’ a project providing support to homeless people and those with substance misuse issues in Kent
Activiteens
£2,470 | Holiday Grant | London | Holiday Grants | 2016Towards a day trip to a wildlife park for a group of disadvantaged children from London
Adoption UK
£95,600 | Revenue | Wales | Family Services | 2017Towards three years’ running costs of the ‘First 1,000 Days’ project, providing peer support to new adoptive families in Wales
Adur Special Needs Project
£10,000 | County | South East | Disability | 2017Towards one year’s running costs of a project providing weekend play activities for children with disabilities in West Sussex
Adur Special Needs Project
£10,000 | County | South East | Disability | 2016Towards one year’s salary of an organisation that provides weekend play schemes for disabled children in West Sussex
Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse
£135,000 | Improving Lives | National | Domestic & Sexual Abuse | 2018Towards three years’ continuation funding of a project providing practical and emotional support to families bereaved by domestic homicide across England and Wales
Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
Support Networks and Family
Afghan Association Paiwand
£170,500 | Improving Lives | London | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2018Towards three years’ continuation funding of a project providing a culturally sensitive advocacy and counselling service for refugees and asylum seekers with mental health problems in the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Harrow and Ealing
Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
Support Networks and Family
Africa 2000
£2,500 | Holiday Grant | London | Holiday Grants | 2017Towards a three-night trip to an outdoor activity centre for a group of disabled children from the London Borough of Hackney
Africa Advocacy Foundation
£100,400 | Revenue | London | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2017Towards three years’ running costs of the ‘Revive Project’, supporting refugee girls with experience of FGM in the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham
African Caribbean Community Initiative
£70,600 | Revenue | West Midlands | Mental Health & Wellbeing | 2016Towards three years’ salary of an Activities Officer at a project providing mental health recovery and rehabilitation support in Wolverhampton
African French Speaking Community Support
£1,430 | Holiday Grant | West Midlands | Holiday Grants | 2017Towards a day trip to an adventure activity centre for a group of disadvantaged children from Birmingham
African French Speaking Community Support (AFSCS)
£790 | Holiday Grant | West Midlands | Holiday Grants | 2018Towards a day trip to a wildlife centre in Staffordshire for a group of disadvantaged children from the West Midlands
Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA)
£154,200 | Revenue | North West | Family Services | 2017Towards three years’ running costs of a project providing support and advice to families in Greater Manchester with a child in the Child Protection or Care Proceeding system
After Adoption
£91,600 | Revenue | North West | Family Services | 2017Towards three years’ continuation funding of the salary of the Adoption Support Social Worker and a contribution towards the running costs of the ‘TALK’ programme in Merseyside
Age Concern Farncombe
£10,000 | County | South East | Older People | 2016Towards one year’s running costs of a project in Surrey that helps ensure isolated older people can access a day centre
Age Concern Hampshire
£20,000 | County | South East | Older People | 2017Towards one year’s running costs of the ‘Enablement Service’ for older people in deprived and rurally isolated areas of Hampshire
Age Concern Luton
£75,700 | Revenue | Eastern | Older People | 2017Towards three years’ running costs of a project in Bedfordshire providing services to older people to relieve loneliness, and to improve health and wellbeing