What is the aim of the trip?

• The trips must be for fun, and they must not have any educational or religious aims.
• They only provide grants for one-off trips. This means the trip must be a unique event and not part of your organisation's ongoing or regular activities. In other words, they do not fund trips that are part of your normal work.

When and where can you go on the trip?

• Trips can happen from the 13 of January to the 31 of December. They fund day trips and residential trips up to 7 days in length.
• The trip must be in the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland). They are less likely to fund trips that spend too much time travelling because the main focus should be on the children's experience.
• To be able to fund more applications, they want to fund low-cost trips. Because of this, they do not support trips to high-cost places such as theme parks, musicals, or sporting events. The average cost per child per day in 2024 was £64, but they cover higher costs for groups with children with disabilities to meet their access needs.
• They only fund one trip per application and do not accept applications for multiple trips.

Funding Information 

• Grant amount: £500 – £2,750 per trip.
• Trip length: A day trip or residential trips of up to 7 days

Who can go on the trip?

• They only provide funding for trips with children aged 13 and under. They do not support trips for individuals or families, whether this is a single family or several families.

Eligibility Criteria 

• Eligible organisations
  • Schools, youth groups, and not-for-profit organisations.

Ineligibility Criteria 

• The Holiday Grant Programme will not fund trips if they have any of the following features:
  • Types of organisations
    • Organisations that cannot provide a copy of their most recent audited or independently inspected annual accounts. If you are a school, this means your latest school inspection report.
    • Organisations whose main activity is providing holidays or trips for children. We do not support the running costs of play or holiday schemes.
    • Organisations (except schools) with an income or expenditure of over £2 million.
    • Organisations that are for-profit or do not have charitable aims.
  • Types of trips
    • Trips outside the four nations of the UK (England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland).
    • Trips to high-cost places like theme parks, musicals, or sporting events.
    • Trips that have already taken place.
    • Trips that will happen in less than five weeks.
    • Trips for children over the age of 13.
    • Trips that are educational or meet curriculum aims.
    • Trips where the main goal is to promote a particular religion or convert children to a faith.
    • Trips that include families and not only children.
    • Trips where some children might be excluded due to cost.
    • Trips over multiple days to multiple venues.
    • Trips that spend too much time travelling, the focus should be on the children’s fun experience.

For more information, visit Henry Smith Foundation.

https://henrysmith.foundation/grants/holiday-grants/