Aims/priorities: Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline Grants Programme is designed to support women's organisations promote their fight for gender equality in the UK and make long lasting change.
It resources advocacy, campaigning and activists with lived experience of injustice and inequality – giving voice especially to women facing intersecting disadvantages including race, class, sexuality, disability, poverty or migration status.
The programme aims to:
- Support campaigning, advocacy and activists working across any one of Rosa’s four pillars.
- Amplify the voices of individual women at the Frontline of grassroots work in the UK.
- Support work which can, long-term, tackle the underlying causes of a problem women face.
Who can apply? Women's sector voluntary and community organisations in the UK are eligible to apply.
To be eligible, applicants must meet all of the following:
- Be non-profitable and run predominantly by, for and with women. It is not required to be a registered charity, but the group’s activities must be charitable, legal and for the benefit of women.
- Have a written governing document, eg, a constitution or set of rules.
- Have a governing body with at least three unrelated members
- Have a UK-based bank or building society account in the organisation’s name with at least two unrelated signatories.
- Have been active for at least one year and can produce annual accounts for a whole year.
Priority will be given to organisations that are:
- Operating in the top 20% of the most disadvantaged areas in the UK based on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).
- Based in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
- Led by and for Black and minoritised women and girls.
- Led by and for disabled women.
- Led by and for LGBTQ+ women and girls.
Grant amount: One-off grants of between £500 and £7,000 are available.
It is expected that around 30 to 40 grants will be made.
Application process: There will be 'How to Apply' webinars to help applicants to develop their video applications on the following days:
- 12 October, 4pm to 5pm.
- 25 October, 3pm to 4pm
Guidance notes can be found on Rosa website.
Application is by way of a brief online application form as well as the submission of a three minute video application outlining how the funding will be used.
Deadline:The programme is open until 3 November 2022 at 4pm.
Contact information: Contact Rosa - the UK Fund for Women for further information.
Website: Voices from the Frontline - Rosa