Deadline: 10-Dec-21
The Smallwood Trust has launched its Women’s Sector Resilience Fund Phase 2 to support local networks of organisations working with and for women to make changes to systems that cause women’s poverty in their area.
Goals
They have £1.5 million available to fund approximately three networks over three years to achieve the programme goals of:
- Working with networks of organisations united by geography to reduce gendered poverty in their area
- Building capacity within local communities to help the local women’s sector to create sustainable change
Aims
The aims of the programme are to:
- Take a ‘test and learn’ approach – they think that local organisations know a lot about what creates change for women and they will learn alongside organisations through the fund
- Help networks further understand women’s poverty in their local area, for different groups of women, and support them to define the change they want to see
- Stimulate ideas that are designed and delivered by the people closest to the problem, including women with experience of poverty themselves
- Help networks build strong relationships with a range of different organisations, individuals and decision makers so that after the programme is over these relationships remain
- Support networks to measure the change they are making
Funding Information
- They aim to fund approximately three geographical place-based networks. Each network can apply for up to £500k to be spent over three years. This funding will be awarded to a lead organisation who be responsible for distributing the money to the rest of the network. This funding will pay for:
- Core costs for each of the organisations involved (70%) e.g. 350k
- Support to coordinate the network (20%) e.g. 100k
- Any advisory support / organisational development / capacity building that you might need (10%) e.g. 50k
- All budget lines that are applied for should ultimately support the network to achieve the goals and aims of the fund. These percentages are a rough guide and final sums will be decided with you if your application is successful.
Geographic Areas
It is a place-based approach to systems change that is open to networks in and around the following areas:
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Kingston upon Hull
- Liverpool / Merseyside
- Manchester
- Middlesbrough / Teesside
- Newcastle
- West Yorkshire (Bradford and Leeds)
Eligibility Criteria
- All organisations to be funded must:
- Be a not-for-profit organisation (including registered charities and CICs) that is women only or has a track record in delivering services for women (aged 18+) facing multiple and complex disadvantage
- Have a written governing document e.g. a constitution or set of rules
- Have a governing body with at least three unrelated members
- Have a UK-based bank or building society account in the name of the organisation with at least two unrelated signatories
- Have an appropriate safeguarding policy in place (every organisation that delivers charitable activities has a duty to safeguard volunteers, staff members, users, participants and donors)
- In addition, the lead organisation within the network must:
- Have some previous experience of either: subcontracting, coordinating a network, joint working or a combination of these
- Have at least 12 months of draft or signed accounts.
For more information, visit https://www.smallwoodtrust.org.uk/organisations