The Henry Smith Charity: Small Grants

Aims of Fund

To relieve and where possible release people from need and suffering.

Who can apply

Organisations with an annual income of less than £250,000 that are based in one of the counties that the charity has a connection with. This includes East Sussex and West Sussex.

How much and what can you apply for

You can apply for £500 - £20,000 for one off capital expenditure or a year's running costs. However, you need to have secured 75% of the funding for your project before you apply to Henry Smith Charity.

Grants are given for projects under the following headings:

• Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
• Carers
• Community service - projects providing support for communities in areas of high deprivation
• Disability - projects providing rehabilitation, training or advocacy support to people who are disabled
• Domestic and sexual violence
• Drugs & Alcohol/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 & Trafficking
• Refugees & Asylum Seekers
• Young People

Further details and a list of exclusions are on the Henry Smith Charity website.

The following grants were made to groups in Brighton and Hove in 2010:

• £2,500 to Brighton and Hove Independent Mediation Service towards core costs
• £4,000 to Brighton and Hove City Mission to provide food parcels and home start up packs
• £2,500 to Brighton and Hove Unemployed Workers Centre for a children's Christmas Party
• £4,050 to Brighton City Table Tennis Club to run the club for young people
• £4,000 to Brighton Consort for music classes for older people
• £5,000 to Clock Tower Sanctuary day centre for young homeless people
• £2,500 to Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project
• £4,000 to Relate in Brighton & Hove and Worthing
• £5,000 to Somerset Day Centre in Brighton
• £2,500 to St Anne's Day Centre for homeless men
• £5,000 to St Lukes debt advice service
• £5,000 to Sussex Deaf Association
• £4,60 to the World Food Project cookery classes for Black and Minority Ethnic communities

How to apply

You will need to complete a 'County list' application form which can be downloaded from the website.

Deadlines for application

Trustees meet four times a year. They do not publish the dates of the meetings, or application deadlines, but if you phone up they will tell you when the next meeting is. If they have too many applications for a meeting, they will sometimes hold some of them over until the next meeting. Therefore the time between submitting an application and finding out if you have been successful could be anything from 2 - 6 months.

Contact details

Date & initials

26/7/11 JG