Creativity during Covid
Libertie Project, Inverness: £4899 Covid grant 2019: Supporting women through Covid leading to a new social enterprise development Purpose: Providing self care kits to women using the project to sustain them through Covid Achievements: In total we reached 98 women across the Highlands who had not used our services before through a referral partner network […]
FollowIt App helping women feel safer
The Media Co-op £30,000 over 3 years 2016 Tampon Tax award: Seed corn funding for a new project which resulted in a significant long term resource for women being stalked The £30,000 from Women’s Fund enabled Media Co-op to leverage funding for the overall project of £125,348, as follows: Glasgow City Council Cooperative Business Development […]
Keeping pennies in pockets with help from Musselburgh CAB
Musselburgh CAB: £30,000 over 3 years, Tampon Tax 2016: A project which explored ways of developing practical and financial skills for women who had survived abuse or had other contacts with criminal justice and which has led to some follow on funding. Purpose: A project to improve the financial literacy of women survivors of domestic […]
Specialist support for deaf women and girls experiencing abuse
Deaf Links Dundee: £5,000 in 2019: Funding for assessment of the need of deaf women and girls and development of a tailored service from Women’s Aid to meet these needs, work which has now received longer term funding Purpose: To assess the needs of deaf women and girls experiencing abuse through surveys and face to […]
Access to industry – securing accredited qualifications
Access to Industry, Edinburgh: £4942 2016 Tampon Tax: Funding for beauty therapy course for vulnerable women which developed expertise in on line delivery of practical courses and new partnerships with agencies working with vulnerable women contributing to on going work. Purpose: to run five beauty therapy courses, all delivered online, 4 introductory courses and a […]
Growing in a pandemic
Transitioning to digital to support women in business Do you know that women are not only more likely to run service delivery businesses i.e., cleaning or counselling, but they are also more likely to be in what is known as self-employed poverty? Delivering their services and keeping customers happy whilst not growing their businesses or […]
Introducing our March 2022 Grant Partners!
We were open for applications between November 2021 and January 2022 – we received many more applications than we could fund. A third of these applications were not actually eligible. Primary reasons for ineligibility were failure to meet governance requirements, an income exceeding £1 million and incorrect application of the 25% project cost requirement. In […]
No creche – no class!
Learning English as a woman who speaks other languages As an English speaker it is easy to take communications skills for granted. However, if you are a woman who has come to Scotland as a refugee or asylum seeker, this is a big issue which will affect all aspects of your life. In Glasgow in […]
Linwood Healthy Living Group
Keeping healthy and active and making friends Access to affordable exercise classes locally is vital in allowing older women to remain active and indeed to improve their physical health by overcoming conditions such as diabetes and arthritis. Classes also combat isolation and loneliness and improve mental health. Linwood Healthy Living Group is an example of […]
Our Covid-19 grantmaking
Thanks to the support of the Castansa Trust, The Ward Family Trust, Eve’s Trust, Baillie Gifford, some private donors, and the Oak Foundation the Women’s Fund for Scotland was able to raise £187,000 to support the needs of women and girls in Scotland during the Covid-19 pandemic. This funding has been issued to our impact […]