Applications to the Rosa and Smallwood’s Women Thrive Fund Fund are currently closed.

Rosa and Smallwood’s Women Thrive Fund

Delivered in partnership with Smallwood Trust, the Women Thrive Fund distributed £1.79 million of Tampon Tax funds granted by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to organisations led by and for women and girls across the UK. The Women Thrive Fund aimed to improve mental health and wellbeing and financial resilience by offering grants of up to £50,000 to women’s and girl’s organisations.

The fund responded directly to what women’s and girls’ organisations have told us throughout the pandemic: that declining mental health, increased risk of emotional trauma and increased poverty levels are their biggest concerns for women and girls across the UK.

Read our impact report for key themes and issues raised by funded organisations.

Fund Status: Closed

Application Deadline: 25/03/2021

Grant Sizes: Up to £50,000

This programme funded work supporting the UK’s most vulnerable, disadvantaged and/or under-represented women and girls to:

  1. Improve their mental health and wellbeing, gaining confidence, tools, skills and support to sustain those improvements; and/or
  2. Improve their financial resilience, increasing their routes out of poverty, gaining confidence, tools, skills and support to secure a stable financial future.

We also strengthened women’s and girls’ organisations to be more sustainable and better able to meet the needs of women and girls.

This fund is closed, but please read the guidance document for a full list of requirements.

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Rosa funds non-profitable women’s and girls’ organisations. Rosa defines women’s and girls’ organisations as those which are run by, for and with women and girls. This means that your organisation will be governed and led by women. It will have a Board of Trustees (or similar) where the Chair is a woman and the majority of members are women. The majority of your organisation’s employee leadership team will be women. Your organisation will have the principle objective of working with women and/or girls and the majority of your organisation’s beneficiaries are, and will always be, women and/or girls.