Deadline: 30-Jul-24
Rosa has announced the Stand With Us Fund to address the critical lack of investment in frontline organisations supporting women and girls who experience male violence.
The fund supports organisations to become stronger and more effective; better meeting the needs of women and girls and influencing wider change for all women and girls across the UK. Organisations can apply for up to £25,000 to fund areas related to organisational development, including strategy, governance, leadership, having a stronger voice within the women’s movement, building alliances, fundraising, impact, systems and processes.
They will fund organisations whose primary purpose is providing services directly to women and girls. The organisations will be 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.
Funding Information
- You can apply for a grant of up to £25,000 over a 1-year period from January 2025 to December 2025.
Outcomes
- The Stand With Us fund (Round 2) aims to achieve the following outcomes:
- Women and girls will be supported by organisations delivering frontline services to end male violence against women and girls, ensuring women and girls can be safe, healthy and equal.
- Women and girls organisations will be empowered and strengthened, meaning that they will be in a stronger position to survive, thrive and grow into the future.
- They want to enable organisations to be in a stronger position to survive, thrive and grow by investing in organisational development work such as developing strategy, strengthening governance and leadership, a stronger voice in the women’s movement, creating stronger alliances and partnerships, increasing fundraising, volunteering and activism, demonstrating impact and more effective systems and processes.
Eligibility Criteria
- This fund is for women’s and girls’ organisations delivering frontline services addressing male violence against women and girls that have an income of between £100,000 and £500,000 (from their last set of annual accounts).
- In order to apply, your organisation must meet all the following 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.
- Be a not-for-profit organisation
- Have an income of between £100,000 and £500,000 from your last set of annual accounts (these are full year accounts which have been signed off by your board).
- 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).
- Deliver all their work in one or more of the four UK Nations: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
- The Stand With Us fund will prioritise the following organisations: Women’s and girls’ organisations which are:
- operating in the top 10% of the most disadvantaged areas in the UK -based on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD);
- based in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland;
- led by and for Black and minoritised women and girls;
- led by and for disabled women and girls;
- led by and for LGBTQ+ women and girls;
- In addition, organisations that have not previously been funded by the Stand With Us fund Round 1 (SWU 1) will be prioritised in the second round of the fund.
Ineligible
- They will not fund the following types of activities:
- organisations that do not meet the eligibility criteria including the definition of a women’s and/or girls’ organisation
- responsibilities of statutory agencies
- profit-making work
- party political activity
- activities promoting religious beliefs
- work outside the UK
For more information, visit Rosa.