Women’s Fund for Scotland Grant Program in the United Kingdom
Deadline: 18-Nov-2024
The Women’s Fund for Scotland aims to promote systemic change in Scotland to empower women, and to help overcome the multiple disadvantages and discriminatory practices that females experience throughout their lives.
Purpose
- They are aiming to develop a sustainable network of grass roots organisations throughout Scotland which are supporting women and girls to achievements in line with our investment themes. To this end our grant programme in 2023/24 will offer unrestricted grants to sustain existing work with women and girls or to support new work in line with our investment themes and priorities.
Themes
- Applications should demonstrate how they fit into one or more of our key investment themes of:
- Building skills and confidence
- Improving health and well-being
- Growing social connections
- Moving on from abuse
- Developing leadership and innovation
- Combatting poverty and building financial resilience
Funding Information
- They will award grants up to a maximum of £5000
Funding Priorities
- All applications will be considered according to these funding priorities. Applications which most clearly fit one or more of these will be prioritised. They are:
- Women’s organisations, especially those run by and for women
- Community-based organisations running projects with women and girls
- Projects supporting disadvantaged women and girls
- Empowering women and making a tangible difference to their lives
- Supporting women to escape and recover from domestic or sexual abuse
- Using the limited resources for maximum long-term impact and improving organisational sustainability
- To ensure so far as possible Scotland-wide distribution of funds.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any properly constituted non-profit organisation which meets the criteria may apply, including charities, social enterprises, and unincorporated organisations.
- Organisations with an annual turnover of more than £500,000 are not eligible for funding. Please note that if they are oversubscribed, they will give priority consideration to organisations with an annual turnover not greater than £300,000.
- Management Committee
- There must be a minimum of three unrelated persons on the management committee or Board. This is to ensure that the group has a range of perspectives and experiences and is not dominated by the interests of a single family or similarly connected individuals.
- For the same reasons, the majority of your management committee or Board members must be unrelated.
- Governing Documents
- Your organisation has charitable purposes, and these are described in your governing document.
- Your governing document includes suitable restrictions on the disposal of assets under the organisation’s control (a charitable ‘asset lock’) and its management committee or board members’ remuneration.
- Accounts & Financial Procedures
- You must be able to supply your latest set of approved accounts, unless your organisation is less than 18 months old, in which case no accounts are required.
- For all constituted groups these will need to have been approved by your management committee or Board.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They try to be as flexible as possible to encourage innovation, however, they do not fund:
- Uniformed, political, or religious organisations except where they are running a project which would otherwise be eligible, and which does not promote any religion or a political purpose. (For example, a project promoting women’s participation in the political process may be eligible where it is for women of all political persuasions.)
- Organisations with an annual turnover of greater than £500,000 are not eligible for funding
- Organisations that pay less than the living wage of £12.00 per hour (April 2024)
- Projects primarily targeted at girls under the age of 12
For more information, visit Women’s Fund for Scotland.