Applications to the The 2025 Rosa Rise Fund Fund are currently open.
The 2025 Rosa Rise Fund
Rosa’s Rise Fund provides organisational development funding for Black and racially minoritised-led women’s and girls’ organisations across the UK.
Through this fund, we offer two-year grants of up to £40,000 to organisations with an income of between £30,000 and £300,000.
The funding is for organisational development work relating to areas such as strategy, governance, leadership, alliances and partnerships, funding, demonstrating impact and systems and processes.
Fund Status: Open
Application Deadline: 23/06/2025
Grant Sizes: Up to £40,000
This fund is for not-for-profit women’s and girls’ organisations which are led by and for Black and racially minoritised women, that have an income of between £30,000 and £300,000 (from their last set of signed annual accounts).
Please read the Rise Fund Application guidance for a full list of eligibility criteria.
With this funding we want to enable Black and racially minoritised-led women’s and girls’ organisations to be in a stronger position to survive, thrive and grow into the future.
Organisations will be able to report one or more of these changes:
- A clearer strategy
- More effective governance
- More effective leadership
- Stronger alliances with other women’s organisations
- More financial sustainability
- More able to attract funding from other sources
- More able to demonstrate the impact of your work
- More effective systems and processes
Examples of the types of activities we will fund are provided in the Rise Fund Application Guidance.
Please read the Rise Fund Application Guidance and FAQs before registering for the fund.
Rosa will be hosting ‘How to Apply’ webinars to help applicants develop their applications. Please register using the links below:
12.00 – 13.00 Thursday 5th June
16.30 – 17.30 Tuesday 10th June
Once you have read the guidance, please register with our database.
The registration form will ask for your name and contact details and the name of your organisation. You will also be asked to answer our eligibility questions. Please note that we can only consider applications from organisations which meet all our eligibility criteria.
Once you submit the registration form confirming your eligibility, you will receive an email with a link to the application form.
If you have a query, the best way to contact us is to send an email to grants@rosauk.org.
Please submit your application form by 4pm on Monday 23rd June 2025. We are unable to accept late applications.