Applications are now open for Feminist Review Trust Grant Program to support projects that transform the lives of women.
Funding Information
The maximum value of any individual award is UK
£15,000 (or its equivalent). However, the Trustees rarely give out awards of
this amount so when you prepare your application please bear in mind that you
may only be offered partial funding.
What will the Trust
fund?
The Feminist Review Trust will fund:
- Hard to fund projects. Some types of projects are difficult to
fund. Typically these projects have no other obvious sources of funding.
This might mean, for example, that traditional academic sources are either
not interested in the area or that it is an activist project or that it is
too feminist for most conventional funding sources. For example the Trust
supported the writing and publication of the history of Rape Crisis in
Scotland and the translation and updating sections of ‘Women and Their
Bodies’ into Arabic and Hebrew.
- Pump priming activities. This means that they will provide a
small amount of funding to help start an activity in the hope that it will
then be able attract sufficient funding to continue. For example they
funded a project in Argentina to strengthen the capacity of organizations
promoting women’s rights and a project to provide audio visual equipment
for a feminist social centre in Madrid. In each case these projects have
hopefully helped to create a sustainable activity.
- Interventionist projects which support feminist values. It is often
difficult for projects around core feminist concerns such as abortion
rights and domestic violence to find funding. For example the Trust has
supported Asylum Aid (an independent charity workshop with asylum seekers
in the UK) to promote its ‘Charter of Rights’ for Women Seeking Asylum.
They supported the 40th Anniversary Campaign of Abortion Rights in the UK,
a documentary about abortion in Trinidad and Tobago and a feminist art
studio in Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Training and development
projects: they will fund projects which
provide training in relevant areas. For example, the Trust has funded
English lessons for sex workers in London; leadership skills training for
women in the voluntary sector. and volunteer training as Glasgow Women’s
Library.
- One off events: they supported Cine25 as part of the celebrations of
25 years of Women’s Studies at the University of York (UK); a seminar for
the Lileth Project (a violence against women housing related project), and
a workshop on the gender dimensions of Bulgarian Immigration Policy.
- Dissemination: they will fund the production and distribution of
relevant material. Too often wonderful work has had a more limited impact
than it should because it was not well of fully distributed The Trust will
fund dissemination. For example they have supported the production of a
booklet on Asian women’s experiences of higher education in the UK and the
distribution of publications by the Rights of Women (a non-profit UK
group)
- Core funding: They realize that many groups struggle to raise core
funding. The Trustees are willing to offer core funding to cover staff
costs, accommodation etc., except in instances where applicants are
seeking core funding to replace funding lost as a result of public sector
cuts.
- Other projects: if your application does not easily fit into any of
the above categories they may still support it. For example, the Trust has
funded a project to capture oral histories of women’s experience of the
menopause. Contact the Trust to discuss eligibility prior to submitting
your application.
What will the Trust
not fund?
The Feminist Review Trust
will not fund the following types of applications:
- Applications from students to
support them on courses of any kind. This includes sub-degree, Bachelors,
Masters and Doctorates. Nor will they fund doctoral fieldwork.
- Applications from academics to
fund work which could be funded by more traditional sources of funding.
This means that they are very unlikely to fund summer projects for US academics.
- Where they do fund academics
they will not fund overheads, teaching buy-outs or equivalent.
- Applications to continue
doctoral studies. Post-docs can be funded from more conventional sources.
- Applications from religious
groups.
- Applications from UK
organizations for core funding that has been lost or reduced due to
statutory bodies’ spending cuts.
Post Date - 08-Mar-2021