The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has launched the Women’s Empowerment Fund. The Fund is £250k in total and voluntary and community groups whose primary objective is to work with women in the community are invited to apply for funding for local community engagement projects that empower women.
The objective of the Women’s Empowerment Fund is to:
• Deliver activities that empower women so they can fully participate in and shape the communities in which they live, challenge practices that are harmful to them and take a full part in society
• Provide case studies backed up by evidence on what works on women’s empowerment projects. This will be used for sharing across government, with other VCS and public sector groups as exemplars.
The Fund is directed particularly at organisations who demonstrate they can work with women who find it difficult to get their voices heard.
DCLG expect to allocate between £2,000 - £20,000 to individual projects and to make between 10-20 grants.
Organisations must make clear in their applications how the proposed activity will achieve all of the following:
• empower women;
• engage with women who may find it difficult to get their voices heard;
• is community based and works with local neighbourhoods;
• demonstrate impact
• will capture the learning from their projects to be shared with Government, other VCS groups and public sector in their locality
• communicate and share their learning with other VCS groups
For further information and to apply, visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fund-to-empower-women-to-tackle-abuse, or email: [email protected]
Deadline: 31 March 2015, 12noon