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Scottish Community Foundation
The Scottish
Community Foundation established the Women's Fund for Scotland
in 2002 to focus resources on projects that seek to address
barriers which prevent their participation or engagement with
local opportunities, or stop them fulfilling their potential
to play a role within the broader community. They may struggle
to get their voice heard in order to influence decisions that
affect them, their families and communities. The fund seeks
to enable women to develop themselves and their communities
and to improve their own quality of life. The Fund has been
supported since its inception by the Scottish Government and
has recently received a further 3-year allocation from its
Equality Unit.
Women's
Fund for Scotland
What
is the funding for?
Projects should
support women’s development, self-sufficiency, and economic
and social equality. The majority of this funding will be
available for locally focused projects that also contribute
to the regeneration or development of a specific geographic
area, for example:
• Enhancing local facilities, for the purpose of encouraging
women who experience discrimination, disadvantage, or live
in areas of deprivation to live or work within their local
community;
• Benefiting local women who have particular needs because
of their gender, age, sexuality, disability or race or religion;
• Assisting women to make use of local facilities and
opportunities for education, training or employment purposes;
• Promoting a safe and crime free environment for women
in their communities.
They
also expect projects to address at least one of the Scottish
Government’s 5 Strategic Objectives:
1. WEALTHIER AND FAIRER - Enable people to increase their
wealth and more people to share fairly in that wealth.
2. HEALTHIER - Help people to sustain and improve their health,
especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better,
local and faster access to health care.
3. SAFER AND STRONGER - Help local communities to flourish,
becoming stronger, safer place to live, offering improved
opportunities and a better quality of life.
4. SMARTER - Expand opportunities for communities to succeed
from nurture through to life long learning ensuring higher
and more widely shared achievements.
5. GREENER - Improve Scotland's natural and built environment
and the sustainable use and enjoyment of it.
They would be particularly
interested to receive applications which also incorporate
some form of social enterprise, as well as meeting the above
criteria.
Within the Women's
Fund Programme, there are two categories of grant:
* Express
Grants (awards of £250 to £2,000)
* Main Grants (awards of £2,000 to £5,000)
How
much money is available?
Express Grants: upto £2,000
Main Grants:
upto £5,000
If successful,
you cannot reapply for the same type of grant (i.e. Express
or Main) for another 8 months. But you can apply for one of
the other size grants. E.g. A group that receives a Main Grant
in May of one year, will not be able to apply for another
Main Grant until the following January. However, they could
still apply for an Express Grant.
Who
can apply?
Grants will be available to:
• Organisations predominantly run by and for women
• Organisations with women-only projects, which seek
to support and empower women.
Applicants must
be constituted not-for-profit groups. Note that statutory
organisations and organisations with an annual income over
£250,000 may no longer apply to this programme.
Grants will only
be made to projects that benefit women aged 16 or over.
When to apply
There are several rounds in a year. Send in your application
as soon as it is ready but for more information on deadlines
go to the website link below.
How to apply
Application forms will then be available from:
Scottish Community Foundation, Suite 3.4, Turnberry House, 175 West George Street, Glasgow. G2 2LB Tel: 0141 225 6670 or 0131 524 0300 email: grants@scottishcf.org
Or, forms can be downloaded from: www.scottishcf.org
Key words:women, community, capacity building,
express, conservation, employment, environment, regeneration
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