The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
The Tampon Tax Community Fund aims to support women who are most marginalised to overcome barriers that prevent them from fulfilling their potential. The programme will benefit women and girls, investing in a wide variety of projects that make a tangible and long-term difference to health, well-being, confidence and social/economic activity, as well as addressing equality gaps.
This programme aims to fund small-scale interventions, which will make a considerable difference to the lives and happiness of women and girls by raising the aspirations of girls and women and combating the influences that affect their confidence.
Grants of up to £10,000 are available. Priority will be given to women and girls projects; these are defined as:
- A project that has been established by women or girls and/or is led and staffed by women and girls
- A project that has been established with the key aim of working with women and girls only
Women and girls can be disproportionately disadvantaged by multiple issues which are often complex in nature. Combined with these barriers and differing needs within population and geography, specialist and local support is often necessary. Within this context applicants will need to demonstrate how they meet one or more of the following objectives:
- Building skills and confidence - supporting women and girls to learn new skills, giving them the ability to apply for new jobs and/or return to the workplace
- Improving health and well-being - teaching women how to look after and improve their own mental or physical health and live in good health for longer
- Building social networks - connecting women to others they can share similar experiences with, supporting them to feel less lonely, more valued, more able to pass on that support
For further information and to apply, visit: www.lancsfoundation.org.uk/funds/tampon-tax-community-fund, or contact 0330 440 4900, or email: [email protected]
Deadline: 11 October 2019