In an extraordinary feat of courage and determination, Leanne Maiden, a 42-year-old amateur rower residing in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, is gearing up to embark on a solo row across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean. Maiden, who moved to Scotland two decades ago from South Africa, aims to become the first South African woman to complete the…
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Feisty Gals!
Welcoming all our Feisty Guys, Gals and non-binary pals! Join us at our inaugural networking event to be held at The Place Hotel on Friday 2nd June. Book your tickets here: Feisty Gals
Funding the future of not-for-profit work for women and girls 12+
We need your voices to make our own stronger! Only 1.8% of funding makes its way to the women and girls sector – we want to challenge and change this. We need evidence. Please fill in this survey https://buff.ly/3LNiD8D and share it with other groups who work with, by and for women and girls 12+
Introducing our March 2023 Grant Partners!
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…
Routes to Power and Influence
In 2021 we were pleased to join a group of funders involved in informal conversations about opportunities for women’s groups across the UK to being about change at local and national levels. The discussion evolved into a more formal discussion and we made the link between our interests and ‘Routes to power and influence’. As…
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…
