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Rosa, the UK Fund for Women and Girls has launched a new grants programme called Voices from the Frontline which is an innovative new programme aimed at shining a light on women at the front of the fight for gender equality. Supporting charitable advocacy work, Voices from the Frontline will increase the skills, capacity and credibility of women who wish to challenge gender inequality and promote awareness and change, moving us closer to social justice and equality for women in the UK.

Social investors and commissioners are interested in the social impact ventures achieve, but demonstrating this impact can be difficult. Many social ventures struggle to quantify their achievements without the right systems and expertise.

This fund offers grants and support to social ventures to understand and improve their social impact and demonstrate improvements to investors and commissioners.

VYM is offering a series of free workshops for the voluntary youth sector, especially Youth and Play funded organisations. The purpose of these workshops is to offer you the support and training to use effective tools and resources that will help you demonstrate quality and outcomes, to manage and use data, to understand what it takes to submit effective tenders, and to aid your financial reporting.

Grow Wild is awarding funding of £1,000 to £4,000 to community groups that want to bring people together to transform a communal space by sowing and growing UK native plants.

Grow Wild are looking to fund at least 60 groups in 2016 across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There’s a lot of support available from the team during the three month application window in autumn 2015.