Brand Ambassador Opportunity
We need your help! We can only make grants because we fundraise – we need to inspire donors to choose us so that we can go on helping groups just like yours across Scotland.
Home-Start Glasgow North AGM
Usually Annual General Meetings are dry business affairs but not when they are hosted by Home-Start ambassador, Kaye Adams.
Who do we fund?
The Women’s Fund provides grassroots funding to charitable projects across Scotland and is often the sole supporter. Our vision is of a Scotland that is safe, healthy, prosperous and connected because women and girls have been encouraged and supported to reach their full potential.
A Day in the Life of Women’s Fund for Scotland Grantmakers
Wow. Another wonderful day in the lives of two Women’s Fund for Scotland grantmakers. We’ve just allocated £69,000 in our small grants programme to 15 diverse organisations from the Highlands to the Central belt. Today’s grant making included the last of the Tampon Tax funds; this is money collected as VAT on sanitary protection products […]
Fighting fear with fire; camp fire
Have you felt the fear, loneliness, confusion and loss of bullying? Imagine going through every day at school ignored by your peers or abused and insulted by them. Have you experienced the heart-stopping moment of touching your pockets or bag and not being able to find your smartphone? Imagine feeling like that every second of […]
Women’s Fund for Scotland grant making
It was an early start with a meeting in Glasgow this week to decide on grants from the Women’s Fund for Scotland. There is a huge amount of work for both of us in early October, to go through 99 applications for large grants totalling £2.5M, in order to get an agreed shortlist of eight […]
Scottish Women’s Convention Brexit Conference
The SWC is holding an event which will bring women together from throughout Scotland to discuss the implications for individuals and communities of Britain leaving the EU. This is a free event and lunch will be provided. Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland’s place in Europe, Michael Russell MSP, will address the conference. Attendees will […]
Women’s Fund for Scotland benefits from ‘Tampon Tax’
Following today’s Budget by George Osborne, we are extremely pleased that the Women’s Fund for Scotland has been chosen to receive £600,000 of funding from the ‘Tampon Tax’ Fund. Shona Blakeley, Development Manager for the Women’s Fund for Scotland said, “We are delighted at today’s announcement by the UK Treasury. This is a significant boost for the […]
Guests enjoying the Showcase
SAJE with Fiona MacLeod and Tom Ward
