Recently awarded grants
This page features grants made over the past three years through the following grant programmes; Revenue and Capital grants made through our main grants programme (now closed), County Grants, Small Grants in the North-East (now closed) and Holiday Grants for Disadvantaged Children.
These grants were made before the launch of our new grant programmes and strategy, so please note that they may not reflect our current grantmaking policy.
Details of the grants awarded through the Improving Lives and Strengthening Communities programmes will be made once we begin to award grants in 2018.
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 March 2017, 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 .
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
Action For Achievement
£69,600 | Revenue | North West | Young People | 2014Towards two years’ continuation funding of the running costs, including the salary of the Manager, for a charity providing youth work on a deprived estate in Liverpool
Action for Family Carers
£123,500 | Revenue | Eastern | Carers | 2014Towards three years’ salary of a Volunteer Co-ordinator and running costs of a project providing support, information, counselling and day care to carers in Essex
Action for M.E.
£50,000 | Revenue | National | Disability | 2014Towards two years’ running costs of ‘SEE M.E.’, a National employment and support service for people with Myalgic Encephalopathy
Action Homeless (Leicester) Ltd
£520 | Holiday Grant | East Midlands | Holiday Grants | 2015Towards a day trip to Skegness for a group of disadvantaged children from Leicestershire
Action Medical Research
£104,000 | Revenue | National | Medical Research | 2015Towards two years’ running costs of a project researching primary ciliary dyskinesia – restoring cilia to prevent lung damage
Action Medical Research
£110,000 | Revenue | National | Medical Research | 2015Towards three years’ research into whether exercises that strengthen calf muscles can make walking easier for teenagers with Cerebral Palsy
Action Medical Research
£120,000 | Revenue | National | Medical Research | 2014Towards three years’ medical research towards improving diagnosis and treatment for severe anaemia
Action Medical Research
£133,000 | Revenue | National | Medical Research | 2014Towards three years’ medical research into the causes and prevention of preterm birth
Action on Addiction
£75,000 | Revenue | North West | Drugs Alcohol & Substance Misuse | 2014Towards two years’ running costs of an alcohol free cafe bar which serves as a hub for Liverpool’s recovery community for services and support groups
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
Advance
£90,000 | Revenue | London | Domestic & Sexual Violence | 2014Towards three years’ running costs of a domestic abuse advocacy service in London for women and children who are at high risk of harm
Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse
£45,000 | Revenue | National | Domestic & Sexual Violence | 2015Towards three years’ running costs of a peer support project providing emotional and practical advice and guidance to families in England and Wales after domestic homicide
Afghan Association Paiwand
£104,700 | Revenue | London | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2015Towards three years’ running costs 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
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
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 Woman Integration Forum
£620 | Holiday Grant | London | Holiday Grants | 2015Towards a day trip to a farm centre for a group of disadvantaged children from London
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 Eastbourne
£71,700 | Revenue | South East | Older People | 2015Towards three years’ salary of the Befriending Co-ordinator at a project providing services, advice and information to older people in East Sussex
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 St Hilda’s
£5,000 | County | South West | Older People | 2016Towards one year’s running costs of a lunch club for older people in Gloucester
Age Concern Syston and District
£5,000 | County | East Midlands | Older People | 2017Towards one year’s salary of the Office Co-ordinator at a project providing information, advice and support to older people in a deprived area of Leicestershire
Age Connects Neath Port Talbot
£65,200 | Revenue | Wales | Older People | 2014Towards three years’ salary of the Manager at a project providing a range of support and advice services for older people in Neath Port Talbot
Age UK Andover & District
£5,000 | County | South East | Disadvantaged Communities | 2015Towards one year’s salary of the Community Development Worker at a project providing support services to disadvantaged people in the Test Valley area of Hampshire
Age UK Bexley
£60,000 | Revenue | London | Older People | 2015Towards three years’ running costs of the ‘Men in Sheds’ project, providing support services to isolated older men in the London Borough of Bexley