The Women’s Fund for Scotland aims 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.
The Women’s Fund for Scotland (WFS) has £100,000 in total available to distribute in grants to projects across Scotland that support women’s development, self-sufficiency and social and economic equality. To this end, the grant programme will offer unrestricted grants to sustain existing work with women and girls or to support new work in line with its themes. The fund is seeking to support single-sex services and will not fund mixed-sex groups.
The Women’s Fund for Scotland makes grants across three themes, and applications must meet at least one of these themes. These themes are related to the previous six and allow more flexibility for groups to describe their work and the impact they wish to have:
Thrive – funding the potential of women and girls to thrive – through leadership, skills-building, innovation and creativity.
Heal – funding the spaces and support systems that women need to heal – from violence, from marginalisation and from injustice.
Rise – supporting women rising – together and on their own terms. Rising out of loneliness, of poverty and into a more equal Scotland. This could support movement building or collective work
WFS recognise that a project may meet more than one of the themes. However, it does not strengthen your application to meet as many of the themes as possible. Therefore, stay focused and don’t dilute your request by appearing to spread yourself across multiple areas if not appropriate.