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Henry Smith Charity grants

News from: Reading Voluntary Action (RVA)

by Nakhat Zahir (Funding Advice Worker)

1 March 2010

The Henry Smith Charity is a large grant making charity. They make grants totalling approximately £25 million each year to up to 1,000 organisations and charities for initiatives and projects that address social inequality and economic disadvantage.

The Henry Smith Charity makes grants for work throughout the UK. Applications can be made for revenue and capital activity. Priority is given to work with groups experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage, for example, people with disabilities; and work that tackles problems in areas of high deprivation, by which they mean those that fall within the bottom third of the National Indices of Deprivation. Through their Main Grants Programme and their Small and County Grants Programmes they make grants in the following categories;

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Carers ,Community Service , Disability, Domestic and Sexual Violence, Drugs, Alcohol and Substance Misuse, Ex-Service Men and Women, Family Services, Healthcare, Homelessness, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, Mental Health, Older People, Prisoners and Ex-offenders, Prostitution and Trafficking, Refugees and Asylum Seekers and Young People.

For further information please contact the trust.
The Henry Smith Charity, 6th Floor, 65 Leadenhall Street, London EC3A 2AD Tel: 020 7264 4970 Fax: 020 7488 9097
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