Voices from the Frontline

To be eligible for the Voices from the Frontline programme, your organisation must: 

1. Meet Rosa’s definition of a women’s and girls’ organisation. 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 principal 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.
2. Be a not-for-profit organisation.
3. Have a written governing document e.g., a constitution or set of rules.
4. Have a governing body with at least 3 unrelated members.
5. Have a UK-based bank or building society account in the name of your organisation with at least 2 unrelated signatories.
6. Have been active for one year and be able to produce annual accounts for a whole year.
7. Have an appropriate safeguarding policy in place.
8. Not have received a grant through Voices from the Frontline round 6 (which end in February 2025). 

Please read the Voices from the Frontline Application Guidance for further details, including which organisations we will prioritise. 

We will fund organisations that will raise women’s voices and challenge inequality, including: 

• Campaigning for changes in policy and laws including activities such as petitions, social media campaigns and lobbying. 

• National campaigns that address issues that affect women and girls. 

• Influencing community leaders and power holders about issues that affect women and girls in a particular place or community. 

• Gathering evidence or producing tools and reports which enable women and girls and women’s organisations to campaign for change. 

• Video and media campaigns about specific issues facing women. 

• Training activists in campaigning, advocacy, lobbying or public speaking. 

Here are some examples of Voices from the Frontline grants we have supported in the past: 

• A campaign targeted at national policy makers, commissioners, service providers and funders about the barriers faced by women with complex needs when accessing public services.  

• A video to raise awareness of honour-based violence to improve the understanding of the issue and influence professionals to encourage reporting and appropriate responses in public services.  

• Influencing decision makers in government about migrant and refugee girls’ access to schools. 

• A campaign for period dignity in UK schools . 

• A campaign highlighting victim blaming on university campuses. 

• A project to address the barriers that prevent Muslim and South Asian women from entering into local politics in Blackburn, to increase representation. 

• A campaign to reopen the midwife unit in a local hospital and to contribute to a new maternity strategy in Northern Ireland. 

Please refer to the Voices from the Frontline Application Guidance for further details. 

To apply, please read the application guidance document and attend a ‘How to Apply’ webinar if you can, and then complete steps 1 & 2 below. Please note we will not accept applications that have not completed both steps. Please submit your online form and video at the same time. 

1. Submit our brief online application form  

1. Send us a three-minute video by WeTransfer outlining how you will use the funding. Please find information about creating and submitting your application video in the application guidance. 

The deadline for applications is  4pm on Monday 9th December. You need to have submitted your application form and video by this date. Please note that we will not accept applications after the deadline. 

You can find further information in  Voices from the Frontline Application Guidance  and Voices from the Frontline Frequently Asked Questions. 

We will be hosting two ‘How to Apply’ webinars to help applicants develop their applications. Please register for one below: 

• Wednesday 13th November 5.30-6.30pm – Register here 

• Wednesday 27th November 2.00-3.00pm – Register here 

If you are not able to attend either of these dates, please get in touch and we can share the webinar recording after 13th November. 

We encourage you to contact us if you have any queries about submitting an application. If you have any access requirements please let us know what support we can provide. The best way to contact us is to send an email to grants@rosauk.org. Please use ‘Voices from the Frontline’ as your email subject and provide your organisation name, contact name and contact number.  We will do our very best to respond to your queries as soon as we can.