Community Foundation for NI: The Tampon Tax Community Fund

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Track grant Notes

Overview

Objectives:

The Tampon Tax Community Fund aims to support women who are most marginalised to overcome barriers that prevent them from fulfilling their potential. The programme will benefit women and girls, investing in a wide variety of projects, that make a tangible and long-term difference to health, well-being, confidence and social/economic activity, as well as addressing equality gaps.

This programme aims to fund small-scale interventions, which will make a considerable difference to the lives and happiness of women and girls by raising the aspirations of girls and women and combating the influences that affect their confidence.

Grant Size: up to £10,000

Priorities: Women and girl organisations

Who can apply:

This fund is open for applications from:

Registered UK charities
Constituted Community groups
Companies Limited by Guarantee with charitable aims
Community Interest Companies
Co-operatives - registered Community Benefit Societies and registered Industrial and Provident Societies
Credit Unions
Social Enterprises

If you are applying in partnership or as part of a consortium the organisation that submits the bid must be an eligible entity from the list above, this organisation will manage the funds if successful.

Funding to Community Interest Companies and other non-charities may include conditions to restrict funding to charitable objectives only.

Funding Priorities

Priority will be given to:

Women and girl projects, they define these as -

A project that has been established by women or girls and / or is led and staffed by women and girls
A project that has been established with the key aim of working with women and girls only

Priority for shortlist will be given to -

Grassroots organisations offering localised support.
Organisations working with beneficiaries with multiple disadvantages.
User led organisations that have a clear understanding of the needs they are supporting.
Sustainable projects that provide long-term solutions to the people they are helping.

Grants:

up to £10,000
For a duration of up to 12 months
For UK based organisations with a local or community reach
Meet one or more of the Tampon Tax Community Fund objectives (below).

Guidance Notes and Criteria

Women and girls can be disproportionately disadvantaged by multiple issues which are often complex in nature. Combined with these barriers and differing needs within population and geography, specialist and local support is often necessary. Within this context applicants will need to demonstrate how they meet one or more of the following objectives:

Building skills and confidence, for example, supporting women and girls to learn new skills, giving them the ability to apply for new jobs and/or return to the workplace.
Improving health and well-being, for example, teaching women how to look after and improve their own mental or physical health and live in good health for longer.
Building social networks, for example, connecting women to others they can share similar experiences with, supporting them to feel less lonely, more valued, more able to pass on that support.

What can be supported?

Volunteer expenses
Activity costs
Project staff / sessional staff costs

Click here to view the full Guidance Notes for applicants. (NB ONLY WHEN THE SCHEME IS OPEN)