The Women’s Fund for Scotland encourages women and girls to reach their full potential.
We aim to promote systemic change in Scotland to empower women, and to help overcome the multiple disadvantages and discriminatory practices that females experience throughout their lives. Our vision is of a Scotland in which women participate equally at all levels of society, free from any barriers to full and equal engagement in political, institutional, economic, and cultural life, including freedom from the fear of sex-based violence.
One way to tackle systemic inequality is by funding projects that build skills and confidence; improve health and well-being; grow social connections, allow women to move on from abuse and develop leasdership and innovation.
We strive to identify community based groups who might otherwise fall below the radar or lack confidence to apply. We fund a diverse range of charitable projects run by and for women.
Read all about the inspirational projects…
Keeping pennies in pockets with help from Musselburgh CAB
Investment theme: Combatting Poverty and building financial resilience, Improving health and well-being
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…
Specialist support for deaf women and girls experiencing abuse
Investment theme: Moving on from 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…
Access to industry – securing accredited qualifications
Investment theme: Building skills and confidence, Growing social connections, Improving health and well-being
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.…
Growing in a pandemic
Investment theme: Building skills and confidence, Growing social connections
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…
No creche – no class!
Investment theme: Building skills and confidence, Growing social connections
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…
