19 August 2025
Henry Smith Foundation – Shout! Fund
The Henry Smith Charity changed its name to the Henry Smith Foundation in June 2025 and published it new strategy, Elevate Your Impact (2025-2030), which ‘reaffirms its commitment to the people and organisations driving change across the UK’.
Over the next five years, the Foundation will focus on supporting people facing some of life’s toughest transitions.
It will offer flexible, long-term funding through its new funding programmes.
The first of the new programmes is the Shout Fund!
The funding is for organisations that support young people aged 14 to 25 through independent, person-led advocacy. It focuses on helping young people make informed choices, speak up, and secure their rights.
The funding is for organisations whose work supports at least one of the following:
- Care-experienced young people – this includes those who have been in foster care, residential care, kinship care, or have left care.
- LGBT+ young people – supporting young people across the full spectrum of LGBT+ identities. Applicants must be working work inclusively and affirming the rights, identities, and lived experiences of all LGBT+ people.
- Young people with a learning disability and/or neurodivergence – organisations that offer support without requiring a diagnosis and take an inclusive approach.
The Foundation prefers to make flexible grants to support an organisation’s infrastructure in order to help them deliver strong, sustainable advocacy. This might include core costs, including rent, utilities, and staff salaries, as well as costs associated with staff wellbeing.