Deadline: 21-Oct-2025
The Small Grants Programme has been designed to support grassroots, women-led organisations with an annual income of £50,000 or less
It focuses on smaller community groups that are rooted in lived experience and were often started to address a local and unmet need. Funding is specifically aimed at organisations led by women whose beneficiaries are entirely women and girls, with a particular emphasis on supporting young women and girls aged 11 to 30 who have been in the criminal justice system or are at high risk of entering it.
Grants of £10,000 are available to fund ongoing projects, extensions of current work, or new pilot initiatives, provided applicants can demonstrate the need, expected outcomes, and likely success of their proposal.
The programme will contribute towards salaries, activity costs, and venue hire, though not core costs, except for a reasonable proportion of running expenses linked to the project.
Priority will be given to applications working with girls outside education or at risk of exclusion, projects offering activities for girls vulnerable to gang involvement through evenings, weekends, or school holidays, and initiatives providing peer mentoring and role models for those in crisis. All grants must be spent within a maximum of 12 months.
To be eligible, applicants must be a registered charity, not-for-profit social enterprise, or community interest company with a UK office. Social enterprises and CICs must have a governing document outlining the organisation’s name, purpose, objectives, and a dissolution clause confirming assets will go to another voluntary group with similar aims should the organisation cease to operate, as well as details of Trustees, Directors, or the Management Committee. Crucially, the applying organisation must be led by women and dedicated solely to working with women and girls, with beneficiaries being 100% young women and girls.
For more information, visit The Triangle Trust 1949