Mid and East Antrim Borough Council: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Change Fund 2025/26

Overview

Through the following tiers of financial assistance, the EVAWG Change Fund will support those organisations working to prevent and challenge the attitudes, behaviours and culture that can lead to violence against women and girls. It will deliver real change for those who suffer harm and abuse across our society every day.

Tier 1: grants between £1,000 and £5,000

Proposals might be for one-off events, projects, workshops or small clusters of activity aimed at awareness raising and aligned with all or some of the prevention outcomes in the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework 1, 2 and 3. (Outcome 1 is mandatory).

Tier 2: grants between £5,001 and £15,000

Proposals might include expansion/enhancement of activities described in Tier 1, as well as planned programmes of activity, longer running initiatives, educational courses aligned with all or some of the prevention outcomes in the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework 1, 2 and 3. (Outcome 1 is mandatory).

Tier 2: grants between £15,001 and £25,000

Proposals might be for planned programmes of activity, longer running initiatives, educational course aligned with some or all of the prevention outcomes in the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework 1, 2 and 3. (Outcome 1 is mandatory). Awards may also be for activities described in Tiers 1 and 2. 

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Proposals must demonstrate an aspect of mentoring or significant collaboration. By ‘mentoring’ we mean where a more experienced organisation with better developed capacity will assist.

Please refer to the Guidance Notes for details of the outcomes of the fund.

Who can apply

Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS) organisations (also referred to as community groups) may apply for funding. These are understood as: 

• “not-for-profit organisations that support a wide range of social, environmental and economic outcomes and rely to a large extent on voluntary contributions through their boards of trustees, formal volunteering and donations. The sector spans a very diverse range of organisations in terms of scale and focus of operations and interests. Volunteers define and drive this sector, but organisations will also all have some sort of formal structure or constitution. They are self-governing and independent from government or the private sector. They have social objectives and work to benefit the community. They may operate a social enterprise or community business but any profits will be re-invested for community benefit”.

Department for Communities, Voluntary and Community Sector Infrastructure Support Framework Draft Framework: Proposals for Consultation November 2023 

Some of these organisations may be registered charities. It may also include, for example, arts, faith, youth and sporting organisations. The eligibility of these and other organisations/groupings will be considered against the broad definition set out in 3.1 of the Guidance, including its emphasis on ‘not-for-profit’, ‘formal structure or constitution’ and that ‘they have social objectives and work to benefit the community’. Belonging to or being affiliated with larger organisations does not exclude individual branches from applying.

Costs

• Examples of eligible expenditure might include event costs; design and publishing; filming/photography/animations, website and other digital content development (if directly supporting project activities); marketing and development and/or delivery and/or attendance at relevant training and resources; research; facilitation costs; counselling and related support services; small items of the equipment (under £1,000) essential to delivery of the project; development and delivery of relevant performances and creative initiatives. 
• Other potential eligible expenditure includes proportionate administrative/staff costs and/or running costs directly and necessarily incurred in the delivery of the proposed activity and agreed in the Letter of Offer to the applicant.

See Guidance