Black & Minoritised Women's Fund

Overview

These grants are to help Black and minoritised women’s organisations, led-by-and-for women, which have been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, to support women and girls, dealing with the impact of COVID-19.

They are really keen to fund small organisations that have limited access to funds and without funding core costs may consider reducing services or closing.

You will already be doing great work to support local women and girls or recently started to assist communities impacted by COVID-19. You should have a track record of being well run and have a good understanding of the needs of women and girls. You should be ready and able to deliver services.

Organisations/groups must be able to spend all of the £10,000 grant by December 2022, or within twelve (12) months of signed agreement.

To be eligible for a grant, an organisation must:

• Be a Black and minoritised women’s organisation, led-by-and-for women, which is at least 75% of your senior team and trustees are women from Black and minoritised backgrounds.
• Have an annual turnover of less than £350,000 for £10,000 grants.
• Directly deliver services to Black and minoritised women and girls.
• Be an organisation impacted by COVID-19.
• Have an organisational bank account, or have a registered charity able to be accountable/hold funds on your behalf, which requires two different/independent people to authorise payments or cheques.
• Be delivering services in England
• Be a charitable organisation with written governing document, i.e. constitutions or articles of associations

Funding Limits & Eligible Costs

Each organisation can apply for £10,000. An organisation can submit only one application (if you have previously applied for a £5,000, you cannot apply for a £10,000 grant) and cannot apply in partnership with another organisation.

The grants can be used for work that supports Black and minoritised women and girls to deal with the impact of COVID-19.

Grants can be used for Unrestricted Costs:

• Unrestricted costs. Grants are made towards the general running costs of your organisation, most often referred to as Core Costs.

Grants can be used towards salaries, rent, utility bills, IT costs, insurance, training, freeing senior staff time to work on strategic developments, developing new programs and services in response to changing context of COVID-19, governance activities and fundraising support for example; essentially to keep applicant organisations working through the pandemic or working toward recovery.