Proud Homes Grant
This grant provided by Henry Smith Foundation funds safer, inclusive homelessness support for LGBT+ young people nationwide.
Provided by:
Henry Smith Foundation
Funder website:
https://henrysmith.foundation/
Maximum value:
£200,000.00
Objective of fund:
We want to fund organisations supporting young people facing or experiencing homelessness. Organisations that want to make their services safer and more inclusive for LGBT+ young people.
The fund aims to help homelessness organisations become safer and more inclusive for LGBT+ young people, ensuring they experience respectful and consistent support when seeking help. And to improve practice and learning across the sector.
This fund is designed for organisations ready to commit to sustained organisational change, including improvements to safeguarding, placement decisions, staff capability, supervision, culture, and systems. This is not for one-off training or short-term projects.
We’re committed to funding work that is high-quality, inclusive of LGBT+ young people, grounded in an understanding of the risks they face, and shaped meaningfully by lived experience and youth voice.
This fund is part of our Building Independence Programme, backing services that help young people thrive as they move into adulthood. Meaningful youth voice, trusted adults and lived experience are centred as a common threads through our programme areas. Explore our strategy and funding priorities for more information.
Who can apply
The fund will support up to 6 UK based homelessness organisations that want to improve their inclusive practice that:
Deliver generalist support for young people (e.g., hostels, supported accommodation, outreach)
Have a track record of working with young people
Are committed to engaging youth voice
We will also fund 1-2 organisations who are already demonstrating exemplary or strong practice in supporting LGBT+ young people facing or experiencing homelessness.
Your organisation must:
Be a registered charity, CIC, or community benefit society
Have at least one year of audited or independently examined accounts
Have an annual income between £250,000 and £3 million
Be based in and delivering services in the UK
Restrictions
The fund will not support:
Work benefiting people outside the UK
Retrospective work
Work solely for individuals or families
Statutory responsibilities
Activities that proselytise
Eligible Expenditure
The fund supports work that improves safety, consistency, dignity, and inclusive practice for LGBT+ young people—often through training, organisational development, partnerships, and strengthening internal systems. We fund generalist providers such as housing advice teams, hostels, and supported accommodation that already support young people facing or experiencing homelessness.
How to apply
Take our simple online eligibility checker to find out whether your organisation is eligible to apply. Eligible organisations will be able to submit an expression of interest. Expression of Interests open from Wednesday 6th May 2026.
Submit an Expression of Interest (EOI). The deadline to submit your EOI is Wednesday 3rd June 2026.
We will contact you during the week of the 22nd June 2026 to tell you whether you should submit a full application. If we decide not to invite you to apply, we will explain why in writing. We review hundreds of Expressions of Interest, so unfortunately, we cannot provide detailed feedback.
Submit a full application. If you’re invited to this stage, we’ll ask more detailed questions about your work. Deadline: Friday 24th July 2026.
You’ll have a phone conversation with a member of our team in late-July – mid-August 2026.
We’ll make around 8 grants following the full application stage, and let you know if you’ll receive one in mid-September, 2026.
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