Rosa: Justice and Equality Fund
Overview
Inspired by the phenomenal campaigners of #metoo, TIME’s UP, Ni Nunca Mas, the #lifeinleggings movements and others, a group of UK-based women from the entertainment industry have come together to challenge the culture that permits people in positions of power to sexually harass and abuse others.
The Justice and Equality Fund (the JEF) aims to make workplaces and other contexts just, safe and equitable for all and ensure that anyone who has been subjected to harassment and abuse, including sexual violence at work, is better able to access support and justice.
Funding for the JEF comes from generous donations from individuals from all walks of life via the go-fund-me page which states that “We are waking up to the full scale of systemic abuse based on gender and power – abuse that hurts us all. Like all big problems, it needs big, bold solutions. They have created the Justice and Equality Fund, to create the far-reaching personal, social, legal and policy changes that will ensure everyone can feel safe at work, at play and at home. Together we can end the culture of harassment, abuse and impunity.”
There are 3 new programmes from the JEF. Click on each programme to find out more:
Provides grants of 25K to 200K in total over 1-3 years. Mostly for revenue costs and for new work or an extension of existing work
Provides grants ot 5K to 25K for individual organisations or 25K to 100K for partnership bids over 1-3 years. Mostly for revenue costs and for new work or an extension of existing work
They are allocating up to £250K for this work in year one, to support expanded communications capacity in up to eight specialist organisations.
Key criteria
The JEF seeks to recognise the critical role played by specialist organisations, in both working with individuals affected by harassment and abuse, and in working to bring about wider change on these issues.
In Round One they expect the JEF will fund activities and initiatives that are either:
- delivered solely by women’s organisations (which are led by, and work predominantly for and with, women and/or girls), or
- led by women’s organisations, in partnership with others.
In addition, successful organisations will:
- Have relevant experience in the approach they want to pursue with JEF funding.
- Have a strong track-record in actively addressing issues of equality in their work and reaching out to those groups and individuals who face the greatest barriers.
- Be well-connected and demonstrably collaborative in their approach.
- Have the ability and ambition to mobilise other organisations / be effective influencers.
- Be willing and able to take part in communication activity about their JEF-funded work.
- Be a charitable organisation – your organisation need not be a registered charity, but your activities must be charitable and legal.
A gendered focus: They understand that sexual harassment and abuse happen predominantly to women and girls and it is important to see these issues as part of a wider spectrum of gender-based violence and abuse. However, they recognise that people of all genders and none are also victims of sexual harassment and abuse. They also know that effective prevention work must engage with men and boys as well as women and girls. They expect the JEF grant-making to reflect this.
Please read the application guidance before you apply. If you have an enquiry that is not covered in their guidance materials you can send your enquiry to info@rosauk.org
Recent Grants
Over £2.7 million has been granted and allocated across the three programmes that form the Fund. Further information about the programmes, guidance forms, and the organistations that have been awarded are available below and on their news pages.