Re-Tweed, Scottish Borders: £3,500 Covid grant 2019: Sustaining women using a textile training project and offering community support in a crisis. Purpose: To contribute to the cost of supporting the women to attend online support sessions, increase the hours of the support worker and provide food parcels to those in need which requires volunteers and…
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Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis – textline for survivors
Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis: £2,788 Covid grant 2019: A new textline support service which has been successful with young women and is being continued post pandemic. Purpose: setting up a textline that has been used increasingly by young women and girls to make their first contact with the organisation. Our aim was to offer…
Goal! girls and the SFA Coaching Qualification
Glasgow Girl’s Football Club: £9,408 in 2019, Tampon Tax Community Fund: Purpose: to contribute towards providing training and qualifications for 12 members to become volunteer football coaches. Achievements: Young women achieving level 3 coaching qualifications: After a delay due to Covid restrictions we started the programme on 12th May2021, running through to 27th October 2021.…
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…
