Deadline: 24-Jun-22
The ROSA has launched the Stand With Us Fund to support the many organisations run by and for women who stand up and take action every single day to address violence against women and girls (VAWG).
The Stand With Us fund aims to build on the momentum created in recent years and contribute to lasting change by supporting organisations across the UK run by women who stand up and take action every single day, supporting women and girls whose lives are devastated by male violence.
The Stand With Us fund aims to empower and strengthen frontline VAWG2 organisations to build safer futures for women and girls. This can include, for example, developing strategy, strengthening governance and leadership, creating alliances and partnerships, increasing fundraising, volunteering and activism, demonstrating impact and improving systems and processes.
Aims
- a clearer strategy
- more effective governance
- more effective leadership
- a stronger voice within the women’s movement
- stronger alliances with other women’s organisations
- more able to attract funding from other sources
- more able to demonstrate the impact of your work
- more effective systems and processes
Funding Information
You can apply for a grant of up to £25,000 over a 1-year period from October 2022 to September 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a women’s and/or girls’ organisation. Rosa defines women’s and girls’ organisations as those which are run by, for and with women and girls. This means that your organisation will be governed and led by women. It will have a Board of Trustees (or similar) where the Chair is a woman, and the majority of members are women. The majority of your organisation’s employee leadership team will be women. Your organisation will have the principle objective of working with women and/or girls and the majority of your organisation’s beneficiaries are, and will always be, women and/or girls.
- Be an organisation delivering a frontline service to women and/or girls who have been affected by male violence and abuse including (but not limited to) domestic violence, coercive control, rape, sexual abuse, forced marriage, ‘honour’ based violence, FGM, sexual harassment, economic and financial abuse.
- Undertake activities which are charitable, legal and for the benefit of women and/or girls (but your organisation does not have to be a registered charity).
- Have an average annual income over the last three years of between £100,000 and £500,000 (assessed by calculating the average income of your organisation, taking figures from the last three years of your organisation’s annual accounts).
- Have unrestricted reserves of no more than 12 months expenditure.
- Have a written governing document, e.g. a constitution or set of rules.
- Have a governing body with at least 3 unrelated members.
- Have a UK-based bank or building society account in the name of the organisation, with at least 2 unrelated signatories.
- Have an appropriate safeguarding policy in place (every organisation that delivers charitable activities has a duty to safeguard volunteers, staff members, participants and donors).
- They will prioritise organisations that are:
- led by and for Black and minoritised women and girls
- led by and for disabled women
- led by and for LGBTQ+ women and girls
- operating in the top 20% of the most disadvantaged areas in the UK -based on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
- based in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
For more information, visit https://rosauk.org/funds/stand-with-us/