Recently awarded grants
This page features grants made over the past three years through the following grant programmes; Improving Lives, Strengthening Communities, Strategic Grants – Housing First Programme (now closed), Revenue (now closed), County Grants, Christian Projects (grants awarded from 2019 onwards), 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 September 2020, 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.
6th St Helens (Parr) Scout Group
£1,630 | Holiday Grant | North West | Holiday Grants | 2019Towards a two night trip to an activity centre for a group of disadvantaged children from Merseyside
9th Burton Scouts
£500 | Holiday Grant | West Midlands | Holiday Grants | 2019Towards a two night camping trip for a group of disadvantaged children from the West Midlands
A Way Out
£85,000 | Revenue | North East | Sex Work, Trafficking & Modern Slavery | 2017Towards three years’ running costs of the salary of a Project Leader and running costs of the ‘Liberty Project’, which will provide outreach and a programme of interventions and activities for women involved in sex work in Stockton on Tees
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
Abigail Housing
£153,800 | Improving Lives | Yorkshire & the Humber | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2020Towards three years’ continuation funding of the Destitution Project Coordinator and the Housing Support Worker at a project providing support to refugees and asylum seekers in West Yorkshire.
Priority areas
Accommodation Housing Support
Help at a Critical Moment
Financial Inclusion Rights and Entitlements
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
Academy FM Thanet
£12,000 | County | South East | Disadvantaged Communities | 2019Towards two years’ running costs of a project providing a community radio station and media training for disadvantaged people in Thanet, 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
Accessible Arts and Media
£79,000 | Revenue | Yorkshire & 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
Accuro (Care Services)
£180,000 | Improving Lives | Eastern | Disability | 2020Towards three years’ running costs of an organisation which provides services to people with disabilities across West Essex
Priority areas
Support Networks and Family
Acheinu Cancer Support
£750 | Holiday Grant | London | Holiday Grants | 2020Towards a one day trip to a farm in St Albans for children from the London Borough of Hackney
Action for Elders Trust
£154,000 | Improving Lives | West Midlands | Older People | 2020Towards three years’ running costs of the ‘Balances Lives’ project designed to improve physical, social and mental wellbeing of older people in Hereford
Priority areas
Support Networks and Family
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 Homeless (Leicester) Ltd
£310,000 | Strategic Grants - Housing First Programme | East Midlands | Homelessness | 2020Towards four years’ running costs of a Housing First service for people in Leicester
ActivLives
£9,970 | County | Eastern | Disability | 2019Towards one year’s salary of the Everyday Activ-Ipswich Manager for a project designed to engage older people with disabilities in sports and activities
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
£19,970 | County | South East | Disability | 2019Towards three years’ running costs of a project providing a play scheme for children with disabilities and/or Special Educational Needs 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
Advocacy Matters (Wales)
£90,800 | Improving Lives | Wales | Disability | 2020Towards three years’ salary of an Independent Advocate at a project providing support to people with learning difficulties facing financial hardship and social exclusion in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan
Priority areas
Financial Inclusion Rights and Entitlements
Advocacy Service Aberdeen
£96,000 | Improving Lives | Scotland | Domestic & Sexual Abuse | 2019Towards three years running costs of a project in Aberdeen providing independent advocacy to people who have experienced domestic abuse
Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
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
Afghanistan and Central Asian Association
£137,600 | Improving Lives | London | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2020Towards three years’ running costs of the Women’s Tea Corner project, providing support to newly-arrived refugee women in the London Borough of Hounslow
Priority areas
Support Networks and Family
Financial Inclusion Rights and Entitlements
Employment and Training
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 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
