We were open for grant applications from 25 October 2022 until 29 November 2022:
- We received 87 applications with a total requested amount of £403,000 and project costs of £1.2 million
- 22 local authorities were represented
- 61 applications were first time applicants to the Women’s Fund for Scotland
We sifted these applications and 37 were selected to have a full assessment. The 37 assessed applications came from 15 different local authorities. For the first time in a long time the City of Edinburgh submitted the most applications.
At the end of February 2023 we held our grant making panel, again with representatives from groups previously funded by us, and with the funding available we were able to:
- Award 29 projects with a total investment of £125,878
- Funds were distributed across 15 local authorities
- Investments were made in all 6 themes – 5 x Building Skills and confidence, 4 x Combatting poverty and building financial resilience, 3 x Developing leadership and innovation, 4 x Growing Social Connections, 8 x Improving health and well-being and 5 x Moving on from abuse
- 17 were first time applicants to the Women’s Fund for Scotland
- 10 organisations are women led
- The number of women and girls estimated to benefit is over 4,800
We’re delighted to introduce you to the names of the 29 Grant Partners
Organisation | Local Authority | Project Description | Investment Theme |
Highland | To contribute towards a weekly cycling session for teenagers and young women in Inverness. | Improving health and wellbeing | |
Scottish Borders | To create a bespoke supported network and mentored course for local young women to learn autonomous and collaborative digital and creative skills to platform their voices and enhance their employment opportunities in the creative and media industry. | Moving on from abuse | |
Argyll and Bute | To contribute to the costs of Argyll Wellbeing Hub's Women's Peer Support Group project, enabling AWH to help the group's members cope with their mental health, feel less isolated, and develop supportive relationships. | Improving health and wellbeing | |
South Ayrshire | To fund a contribution to staff salaries for the development and delivery of women?s workshops, and to contribute towards equipment for the project. | Building skills and confidence | |
Clackmannanshire | To cover the costs of additional staff training to better allow the organisation to provide a consistent, quality and scalable service responding to the increasing demand for their services. | Moving on from abuse | |
Perth and Kinross | To fund and mentor young women to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme. | Developing leadership and innovation | |
Dundee City | Funding towards core programmes, namely ESOL classes, skills based subjects, social, health & wellbeing groups, obtaining SQA-accredited qualifications, VAWG awareness workshops, connecting cultures project. | Combatting poverty and building financial resilience | |
City of Edinburgh | To contribute to the annual costs of the 'Time 4 Mum' project helping isolated mothers/carers to (re-)build their confidence, resilience and independence, thereby reducing social isolation and improving their health & wellbeing. | Growing social connections | |
Glasgow City | To contribute towards funding weekly multi-art form sessions in Govan, specifically targeting refugee and asylums seekers and New Scots communities to help break down cultural barriers and encouraging greater community integration. | Building skills and confidence | |
Glasgow City | To work with a group of marginalised girls and young women in Glasgow, to develop the content of an app. which will contain details of local and nationally-based resources which will signpost vulnerable young women to support networks and services. | Developing leadership and innovation | |
City of Edinburgh | To cover the costs of running the 2023 free music courses for women including venue hire, storage costs, volunteer tutor expenses and some organisational costs including administration. | Building skills and confidence | |
Stirling | To fund administration & phone costs, annual supervision costs, and monthly travel for volunteers as part of the befriending service | Moving on from abuse | |
Aberdeenshire | To contribute to the start-up costs of a senior women's team of Huntly Football Club, enabling women to participate in football in an area where there is currently no women?s team. | Improving health and wellbeing | |
City of Edinburgh | To fund 28 outdoor group therapy sessions over 7 months, including funding facilitators | Improving health and wellbeing | |
Dundee City | To fund more hours of a female support worker for 16 hours per week for 12 months. | Combatting poverty and building financial resilience | |
Highland | To part fund tutor costs, mileage and materials to run a programme of rural skills and training for women. | Building skills and confidence | |
Glasgow City | To organise a series of weekly activity sessions for older BME women | Combatting poverty and building financial resilience | |
Glasgow City | To fund the appropriately qualified staff to deliver the course, travel costs, volunteer costs and refreshments for the duration of the course. | Moving on from abuse | |
Fife | To fund specialist art therapists and trauma sensitive yoga teachers to deliver services to women in Fife who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. | Moving on from abuse | |
City of Edinburgh | To fund core costs (IT, admin), sessional staff costs, refreshments, marketing, volunteer expenses. | Developing leadership and innovation | |
City of Edinburgh | To fund staff costs, venue hire, volunteer expenses, illustrator time and refreshments during the focused sessions. | Improving health and wellbeing | |
City of Edinburgh | To contribute towards funding the salary of the office coordinator | Combatting poverty and building financial resilience | |
Glasgow City | To fund staff time and facility and equipment hire to run a 14-week block of boxing, self-defence, and yoga classes for 50 women in and around Toryglen. | Improving health and wellbeing | |
Stirling | To contribute to staffing, rent and running costs for a weekly Health and Wellbeing support group for women. | Improving health and wellbeing | |
Dumfries and Galloway | To fund venue hire, autistic volunteers, access & inclusion costs such as communication aids, and volunteer expenses | Growing social connections | |
Glasgow City | To organise a ten-week wellbeing programme for local women. | Growing social connections | |
Perth and Kinross | To contribute to the cost of travel expenses, training and supervision for student counsellors and a volunteer plus resources and experts to deliver specialist workshops. | Improving health and wellbeing | |
Falkirk | To fund a Wellbeing Officer to provide fortnightly Woodland Wellbeing groups for Women aged 16 and above in an outdoor setting: the Wild Wummin Woodland Wellbeing group. | Building skills and confidence | |
Inverclyde | To contribute to staffing, training and participation events for 5 new groups being established in the Inverclyde area to support women to become more enterprising. | Growing social connections |
