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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]