The women and girls initiative is a funding stream of up to £45 million which The Big Lottery will invest in services for women and girls. The overarching aim of this funding is empowering women and girls to take control of their lives.
Only women and girls organisations will be eligible to apply. The Big Lottery are defining a women and girls organisation as one whose primary purpose is to deliver services to women and/or girls. The Big Lottery also expects it to have a strong track record of delivering services to women and/or girls. They can either be organisations that focus on specific issues (for example, domestic and sexual violence or mental health) or run community-based services such as a women’s centre or youth group.
In order to achieve this The Big Lottery will fund projects that can meet all four funding outcomes:
• Increased provision of holistic, integrated, person-centred approaches for women and girls at risk
• Increased involvement of women and girls in the design and delivery of the services they use.
• A greater number of women and girls are supported through the provision of improved specialist support
• Better quality of evidence for what works in empowering women and girls.
The Big Lottery want to support projects that are ambitious and help to create capacity in organisations.
Organisations will be able to apply for up to £750,000 for up to five years.
For further information and to apply, visit: https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/programmes/england/women-and-girls-initiative#
Deadline to registering your interest: Thursday 16 July 2015