Submissions open for Voices from the Frontline Fund Programme in the UK

Deadline: 09-Dec-2024

Submissions are now open for the Voices from the Frontline Fund Programme to support campaigning and influencing work that enables women and girls to use their voice to achieve change.

Voices from the Frontline campaigns could be targeted at local communities, the general public, local or national government, media, service providers or businesses. They will fund organisations which:

• have identified the issue they want to campaign on;
• have an understanding of their intended audience;
• are ready to start, or have started, their campaign;
• need resources to support their campaigning and influencing work.

Funding Information

• Grant Sizes: £500 – £10,000

What they will fund?

• They will fund organisations that will raise women’s and girls’ voices and challenge inequality, including:
  • Campaigning for changes in policy and laws including activities such as petitions, social media campaigns and lobbying.
  • National campaigns that address issues that affect women and girls.
  • Influencing community leaders and power holders about issues that affect women and girls in a particular place or community.
  • Gathering evidence or producing tools and reports which enable women and girls and women’s organisations to campaign for change.
  • Video and media campaigns about specific issues facing women.
  • Training activists in campaigning, advocacy, lobbying or public speaking

What they want to achieve with this funding?

• With this funding, they want to enable organisations to amplify the voices of women and girls in the UK at a local, community or national level and to use their campaigning expertise to influence change.
• The work funded should strengthen your organisation’s skills and experience in campaigning, activism and/or advocacy and influence power holders in the UK such as local communities, government, service providers and corporates.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for the Voices from the Frontline programme, your organisation must:
  • Meet Rosa’s definition of a women’s and 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 principal 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 a not-for-profit organisation.
  • 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 your organisation with at least 2 unrelated signatories.

Ineligibility Criteria

• They will not fund the following activities:
  • Responsibilities of statutory agencies
  • Profit-making work
  • Party political activity
  • Activities promoting religious beliefs
  • Work that will take place outside the UK
  • Applications from individuals
  • Overseas travel
  • Interest payments on loans

For more information, visit Rosa.