GRANTS FOR WOMEN’S PROJECTS 2009/10

The closing date for the Women’s Fund for Scotland programme run by the Scottish Community Foundation is fast approaching.

We would encourage groups to apply in advance of the deadline of Friday 11th December 2009.

SUPPORTED BY

THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

The Scottish Community Foundation aims to help Scotland’s communities become stronger, believing that

The Foundation established the

Grants will be available to:

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.

Grants of up to £5,000 are available

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:

Case Studies of previous grants from the Fund are available on our website www.Scottishcf.org/grantsforwomen

We 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.

We would be particularly interested to receive applications which also incorporate some form of social enterprise, as well as meeting the above criteria

Grants for International Women’s Day 2010

Around the world, International Women’s Day (IWD) marks a celebration of the economic, social, cultural and political achievements for women. Funding will be available for projects which celebrate International Women’s Day, 8 March 2010, in Scotland, where they meet the general Women’s Fund criteria above. Grants may assist with costs such as:

• Accommodation/premises hire for events;	• Translation/interpreting costs;
• Childcare provision/carer costs;	• Publicity costs;
• Reasonable costs for Guest Speakers;	• Evaluation of events;
• Catering requirements.

The Women’s Fund for Scotland does NOT fund the following:

How and When to Apply

Applications can be made using the Scottish Community Foundation’s Express and Main grants application forms, depending on the amount requested. Visit www.scottishcf.org/grantsforwomen to download forms and guidelines or contact us (see below).

For Main Grants (over £2,000), please note the requirement to explain how your project meets the national outcomes in section 8 of the form

Applications for all grants can be made up to 11 December 2009

Scottish Community Foundation

Suite 3.4, Turnberry House

175 West George Street

Glasgow G2 2LB

Tel: 0141 225 6670

grants@scottishcf.org

website: www.scottishcf.org/grantsforwomen

Applicants for IWD grants are encouraged not to wait until this date to make an application, in order to allow a decision to be made in sufficient time to plan for their events.

Main Grants

Organisations may only apply for one grant (Main or Express) at a time. Groups can receive both one Main and one Express grant in any year from either the Women’s Fund for Scotland or the Scottish Community Foundation’s general ‘Community Grants’ programme. If an application for either a Main or Express grant (from either the Women’s Fund or Community Grants) is successful, the group will not be able to reapply for a further grant of that size (i.e. Main or Express) until there has been a minimum interval of eight months. If an application is unsuccessful the organisation may apply again immediately.

applications (from £2,000 to £5,000) will receive a decision within approximately 3 months from receipt of an eligible and complete application. Decisions on Express Grants (requests up to £2,000) will normally be made within 6 weeks – however please note that Express Grant applications that are submitted in November and December of 2009 will not receive a decision before 1st February 2010. .