Deadline: 2 July 2018
Comic Relief has announced a funding pot of £4 million which is co-funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the UK’s Devolved Administrations to support organisations that are working to end violence and abuse experienced by women and girls across the UK. The government funds have been raised through the Tampon Tax.
This funding is exclusively focused on women with multiple and complex needs and aims to:
- Enable organisations to better support women within the target groups.
- Showcase how women’s lived experience can inform the design and delivery of services, practice and policy.
- Provide opportunities for projects to try out new ways and models of working, for example by acting earlier, building community assets or using digital approaches.
- Enable cross sector partnerships to work together to provide high quality support.
- Support approaches that can provide learning for other organisations and stakeholders across the sector.
- Improve access to support for women with complex needs in less well-served communities, such as BAMER, older women, LBTI, disabled women.
Funding Information
Comic Relief expects to make up to 40 grants of £60,000-£120,000 for between one and three years. They may award grants larger than £120,000 to those bidding in partnership with others.
Eligibility Criteria
- Proposals are welcome from across the UK.
- Comic Relief welcomes applications for a broad range of work that demonstrates an understanding of the gendered causes of violence against women, and that tackles causes and/or consequences. This may be through preventative/early action measures, crisis intervention, and research and policy work as well as longer-term support.
- Applicants should demonstrate a clear and specific understanding of the needs of those they seek to support, and provide evidence for why they are best placed to meet them, either alone or in partnership.
- Applicants can apply for core and/or project funding, as long as they can evidence how they meet the aims and criteria set out above.
- Organisations with an existing grant are eligible to apply.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: United Kingdom
For more information, please visit Comic Relief.