Applying for assistance
Before Making your application, please check that you meet our charitable criteria:
To be eligible for a grant the Beneficiaries must be:
18 years of age or under.
Must reside in the United Kingdom (Our area of benefit is within the United Kingdom only).
Our Charities Aims and Objectives.
To relieve poverty and sickness and to preserve the health of children and children with disabilities and/or special or specific care needs by such means as the trustees see fit.
To preserve and protect the health of those caring for such children (including, but not limited to, their parents, carers, and significant others) in particular, but not exclusively by the provision of equipment, a holiday, support services through respite care, financial support, dialogue advocacy, guidance, mentoring and inter agency working.
Applicants will need to supply documentation of any illnesses or disabilities (such items as hospital referrals, letters from social workers and bank statements Etc.)
We will evaluate your household's financial resources to determine if you qualify for our assistance.
All our applications are means tested, we will require you to supply covering letters (NHS or similar), a statement of earnings, Bank statements and proof of earnings/benefits.
Please use the links below to download our preliminary grant application form.
Please set out the details and the nature of your claim.
If you require help completing your application, please call or Email for assistance.
If your request entails the purchase of equipment, please attach a full description of the equipment concerned, together with evidence of estimated cost thereof.
For example, a quotation or a copy of a price catalogue.
Please try to be specific. Short notes rather than a long essay would be appreciated.
You can email your completed application here.
Alternatively please post to:
Make Them Smile
The Business Hive
13, Dudley Street
Grimsby
DN31 2AW
Once we receive your preliminary application, we will check that you fit our criteria, if we consider that we may be able to help, we will contact you and ask you to complete our in-depth application form.
We will evaluate your household's financial resources to determine if you qualify for our assistance.
All our applications are means tested, we will require you to supply covering letters (NHS or similar), a statement of earnings, Bank statements and proof of earnings/benefits.
Sadly, we receive a great many applications, we apologise, but unfortunately it is not possible to help everyone.
The Trustees meet on the first Sunday of each month.
All successful applications will be notified, if you do not hear back from us within 8 weeks, your application has not been successful and we ask that you do not re-apply with the same request for a minimum of 12 months,
The trustees will no longer consider applications for the following:
Televisions
Holidays other than to one of our holiday homes
Hot Tubs
Please use the link below to view our Charitable objects on the Charity Commissions website
You can contact a dedicated family support officer by calling 0330 1330 870
Available 7 days a week:
Monday - Friday 8.00am - 5.30pm
Saturday - Sunday 8.00am - 12.00 pm
Out of Hours Emergency Contact (24hrs) 07725 099 584
Alternatively, you can email using any of the following email addresses:
General Support: support@makethemsmile.org.uk
Family Support / Welfare / Respite
Paul Flatley: paul@makethemsmile.org.uk
Family Support / Welfare / Respite & Holidays
Dawn Stirk: dawn@makethemsmile.org.uk
Emotional Support / Bereavement
Kelly McWilliams: kelly@makethemsmile.org.uk
Emotional Support / Bereavement
Karen Robeson: karen@makethemsmile.org.uk
Our family support officers will offer advice on any queries you may have, and should we not have the answers you require, we will research and contact the relevant bodies on your behalf.
We are not trained social workers but should you feel the need to talk to a friendly voice please do not hesitate to call us.
We are always here to help and any information you tell us will be treated with the strictest confidence.