Rosa & Smallwood Trust: Women Thrive Fund

Archived Communities Community and neighbourhood development Community safety and crime prevention COVID-19/Coronavirus Gender equality and sexual orientation Human rights and equality Human rights and justice Policy, advocacy and campaigning Poverty and deprivation Social inclusion Social welfare and poverty Victims and survivors Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Micro (up to £1,000) Small (up to £10,000)

Track grant Notes

Overview

What funding is available?

Organisations can apply for:

Grants of up to £15,000 with a turnover of £200,000 inclusive
Grants of up to £40,000 with a turnover of £200,001 – £999,999.

They can also apply for an additional 25% of their grant request for work which will strengthen their organisation. Funding is available to spend until December 2022.

What is funded?

This programme will fund work supporting the UK’s most vulnerable, disadvantaged and/or under-represented women and girls to:

Improve their mental health and wellbeing, gaining confidence, tools, skills and support to sustain those improvements; and/or
Improve their financial resilience, increasing their routes out of poverty, gaining confidence, tools, skills and support to secure a stable financial future.

They will also build stronger women’s organisations that are more sustainable and better able to meet the needs of women and girls.

They particularly welcome proposals from women’s organisations that address the critical needs of women and girls who miss out the most, including: Black and minoritised women and girls, disabled women and girls, LGBT+ women and girls, financially vulnerable women and girls and women on low incomes, older women, women and girls using drugs or alcohol and other underserved and disadvantaged groups of women and girls.

Please read the guidance document and FAQs thoroughly before applying.

Rosa and Smallwood Trust have been awarded £1.79 million by the Tampon Tax Fund, to distribute across the United Kingdom.

They are required by the Tampon Tax Fund to distribute the funding as follows:

England: £1,496,964
Northern Ireland: £117,864
Scotland: £61,032
Wales: £116,584

Priority areas:

Your application will also need to fit one of the following priority areas

Drug and alcohol services
Education and employment activity.
Engaging excluded and vulnerable women and girls through sport.
Work to address period poverty.
Work to address women’s and girls’ loneliness.
Work to increase gender equality.
LGBTQI-specific services.
Services for Black and minoritised women and girls.
Work with female offenders.
Work with financially vulnerable women and girls and women on low incomes.
Work with older women.
Work with women and girls with disabilities and/or women and girls with learning disabilities.
Work with women and girls with multiple and/or complex needs.

Further Information and Support

Please read the GUIDANCE DOCUMENT and FAQS thoroughly before applying via the ONLINE APPLICATION FORM.

They’re also hosting a series of ‘how to apply’ webinars with Smallwood Trust to give potential applicants the chance to ask questions:

February 17th, 1pm. REGISTER HERE
February 25th, 10am. REGISTER HERE
March 8th, 6pm. REGISTER HERE
March 18th, 1pm. REGISTER HERE

If you have any queries about the application process or the status of your application, please email info@rosauk.org.