The Empowering Women Fund, part of the Labyrinth Project, is a Tampon Tax funded grant
scheme led by Solace Women's Aid (Solace). The Labyrinth Project aims to help
women get to an empowered position through the provision of holistic
wide-ranging support that is needs-led, placing women at the centre of their
own interventions.
The grant scheme aims to support the sustainability of women's
groups in local communities and to help women get to an empowered position.
Your project must support the UK's most vulnerable, disadvantaged and/or
underrepresented women and girls. Priority will be given to applications that
target a particular marginalised group.
Solace is particularly looking for projects that
will:
- Improve women's understanding
of the law, their rights and access to legal advice.
- Improve women's mental health
and well-being, increasing confidence, motivation, tools, skills, and
support to sustain those improvements and increase independence.
- Decrease social isolation and
increase women's ability to participate in community activities.
- Improve women's financial
resilienceand employability, increasing their routes out of poverty,
gaining confidence, tools, skills, and support to secure a stable
financial future.
Priority Areas
Your application will need to fit one of the
following priority areas:
- Education and employment
support for women.
- Work to increase legal support
for women.
- Work to provide financially
vulnerable women and girls and women on low incomes with debt/financial
support.
- Work with LBT-specific women
and girls.
- Work with Black and
minoritized-specific women and girls.
- Work with older women.
- Work with women and girls with
disabilities and/or women and girls with learning disabilities.
- Work with women and girls with
multiple and/or complex needs.
- Work to formalise the structure
of your organisation.
What is the funding for?
- The funding aims to address the
need for more joined-up, holistic, women-centred services to respond to
the range of issues affecting women's liveswhich have been intensified by
the Covid-19 pandemic. These issues include violence against women and
girls, to financial, employment and legal issues. Grants will be available
in England, Scotland & Northern Ireland.
- The Empowering Women Fund will
be divided into two strands and grants can run for up to 12 months. The
priority for the grant scheme is to help women's centres and organisations
survive and grow, building capacity and supporting the sustainability of
the women's sector.
Funding Information
Organisations can apply for:
- Seed funding grants
(£500-£1,000): Available to small women’s groups to establish and run
micro women’s empowerment projects in their local area that support women
to build skills and confidence, and decrease social isolation.
- Women’s Sector grants
(£1,000-£25,000): Available for women’s groups and organisations to
develop capacity to respond to changing needs in their communities and run
projects over a fixed duration of at least 6 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are available for
women's groups, centres and organisations in England, Scotland &
Northern Ireland.
- Solace aims to embed equality,
diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) in all that they do and support a
system that is inclusive for everyone. They are committed to equal access
to opportunity and believe all women should have the opportunity to
benefit from the available funding, regardless of age, class, disability,
ethnicity, faith, income, or sexuality. They are particularly keen to
attract groups who do not normally apply for funding, especially for the
seed funding grants.
Post Date - 26-Apr-2021