Deadline: 14 December 2018
Applications are now open for the Rosa’s Now’s the Time (large grants programme) from the Justice and Equality Fund Which asks: What would you do toward ending sexual harassment?
Rosa wants to hear applicant’s ideas, solutions, best next steps. They wants to support:
- Prevention work (including education and other initiatives)
- Awareness-raising activities
- Grass-roots activism
- Influencing
- Work with groups and communities who might face additional barriers to getting their voices heard, or might be at higher risk of sexual harassment and abuse, to amplify those voices
- Work that tries out new ideas
- Innovative uses of tech/arts/sports/etc
- Work that replicates tried and tested approaches in new settings
- Work that others can learn from
Funding Information
Grant requests must be between £25,000 and £100,000 for between one and three years.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants that meet the following criteria are eligible for funding:
- Applicants are a women’s sector organisation run both by and for women. Rosa defines ‘women’s sector organisations’ as those which have the principal objective of working with women and girls and where the majority of beneficiaries of the organisation as a whole are, and always will be, women and girls. Rosa will review applicant’s organisation’s constitution, website and management committee at Stage 2.
- Applicants are a charitable organisation- their organisation need not be a registered charity, but their activities must be charitable and legal.
- Applicants have a written governing document, such as a constitution or set of rules.
- Applicants have a governing body with at least 3 unrelated members.
- Applicants have a UK- based bank or building society account in the name of their organisation.
- Applicant’s bank or building society account has at least two unrelated signatories.
- Applicants are applying in partnership with at least one other organisation.
- The work for which applicants are seeking funding has not already taken place.
- The work for which applicants are seeking funding does not promote religious beliefs.
- The work for which applicants are seeking funding will take place in the UK.
- The work for which applicants are seeking funding does not have a party political nature.
- The work for which applicants are seeking funding is not work that is, or should be, provided by statutory organisations.
- Applicants are requesting funds primarily for revenue costs.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit Now’s the Time Programme.