Women & Girls89+ Funders

Women & Girls Grants & Funding

There are 89 UK funders offering grants for women & girls charities, with typical awards from £200 to £600,000.

Funding for women and girls in the UK supports a broad range of work from domestic abuse services and refuges to leadership development and economic empowerment. The sector has seen increased attention and funding in recent years, driven by campaigns around gender-based violence, the gender pay gap, and women's health inequalities. Major funders such as the Tampon Tax Fund, Rosa (the UK fund for women and girls), and Comic Relief's gender justice strand provide dedicated support. Many general funders also welcome applications from women's organisations. Grants cover frontline services — counselling, legal support, safe accommodation — as well as prevention, education, and systemic change work. Maternal health, period poverty, women in STEM, female entrepreneurship, and support for refugee and migrant women are active funding areas. Organisations led by and for women, particularly those serving marginalised communities, are increasingly prioritised. Intersectional approaches that recognise how gender interacts with race, disability, poverty, and other factors are valued by progressive funders.

Quick Stats

Total Funders
89
Grant Range
£200 - £600,000
Open to Applications
54%

Women & Girls Funders

89 funders found

Allen Lane Foundation

Open

The Allen Lane Foundation, an independent grant-making trust established in 1966 by Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, champions progressive UK...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £6,000

Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation

The Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation, established in 2005 by Amjad and Suha Bseisu—first- and second-generation refugees—empowers young people and dis...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £63,000

Ashla Charitable Trust

Open

The Ashla Charitable Trust is a family-based grant-making charity dedicated to advancing arts, humanitarian aid, education, and women's rights through...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £20,000

Balcombe Charitable Trust

The Balcombe Charitable Trust, founded in 1974 by Roger Kreitman with ongoing family involvement in governance, is a UK-based grant-making charity cha...

Grant Range
£25,000 - £100,000

Baron Davenport's Charity

Open

Baron Davenport's Charity, an endowed trust established in 1914 by the will of Baron Charles Davenport in Birmingham, is dedicated to alleviating acut...

Grant Range
£200 - £1,000

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Open

The Barrow Cadbury Trust, an independent endowed charitable foundation established in 1920 by Quaker philanthropist Barrow Cadbury and his wife Gerald...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £25,000

Bdo Charitable Trust

Open

The BDO Charitable Trust, registered charity number 278589 (formerly BDO Stoy Hayward and Stoy Hayward Charitable Trusts), is a generalist grant-makin...

Grant Range
Up to £1,000

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation

Open

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation (BLCF), established in 1999 and registered as a charity in 2001 by founders Geoffrey Farr MBE DL, Sir Samu...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Blue Thread

Blue Thread is a London-based family foundation established by the Grabiner family, leveraging resources from decades in media and investment sectors....

Grant Range
£25,000 - £150,000

Bridges Impact Foundation

Bridges Impact Foundation, a UK-registered charity established in 2009 by Bridges Fund Management, drives catalytic philanthropic support for innovati...

Grant Range
£25,000 - £250,000

Brook Trust

The Brook Trust is an independent, privately funded grant-making charity (registered with the Charity Commission, no. 1123562) dedicated to tackling h...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £75,000

Caring Family Foundation

The Caring Family Foundation, established in 2019 by Richard and Patricia Caring with strong ties to the UK and Brazil, is a hands-on philanthropic or...

Grant Range
£20,000 - £100,000

Charity Entrepreneurship

Open

Charity Entrepreneurship is an effective altruism-inspired incubator founded to create high-impact nonprofits by identifying evidence-based interventi...

Grant Range
£100,000 - £200,000

Coles-Medlock Foundation

Open

The Coles-Medlock Foundation is a family-run grant-making charity established by Bath-based philanthropists David and Jacky Medlock to alleviate pover...

Grant Range
£500 - £15,000

Comic Relief

Open

Comic Relief, founded in 1985 by Richard Curtis, Sir Lenny Henry, and Jane Tewson in response to the Ethiopian famine, is a pioneering UK charity that...

Grant Range
£50,000 - £600,000

Commonweal Housing Limited

Open

Commonweal Housing Limited is an independent action learning charity dedicated to tackling social injustice through innovative housing-based solutions...

Grant Range
Up to £100,000

Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside

Open

Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside (CFLM), established in 1997 as Sefton Community Foundation and evolving into its current form, is ...

Grant Range
£250 - £30,000

Corra Foundation

Open

Corra Foundation, an independent Scottish grant-maker established in 1985 (originally Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland), drives positive change, opp...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Coutts Charitable Foundation

Open

The Coutts Charitable Foundation, established in 2013 and rooted in the 19th-century philanthropic legacy of Thomas Coutts and Angela Burdett-Coutts, ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £300,000

Dawes Trust

The Dawes Trust, established in 2011 as a UK grant-making charity, is dedicated to combating crime—including organized crime—by protecting people and ...

Grant Range
From £100,000

Dormywood Trust

The Dormywood Trust, established in England in 2017 (originally as The Currey Foundation and renamed in 2020), is a grant-making charitable trust dedi...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Eaton Fund

The Eaton Fund, a UK-based charitable incorporated organisation established in 1954 by the Eaton family, provides practical financial assistance to pr...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

Elizabeth Rathbone Charity

Open

The Elizabeth Rathbone Charity, a family-stewarded grantmaker rooted in Merseyside's philanthropic legacy, advances welfare for disadvantaged people t...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £3,000

Firebird Foundation

The Firebird Foundation, established in 2021 by Olivia Hall, drives equality and justice for women and children worldwide through a systemic approach ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Football Foundation

Open

The Football Foundation, established in 2000 by the Premier League, The FA, and the UK Government via Sport England, is the UK's largest sports charit...

Grant Range
£300 - £100,000

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Open

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), established in September 2020 through the merger of the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office and ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Frederick Andrew Trust

Open

The Frederick Andrew Trust, established in 1922 from the legacy of Lincoln solicitor Frederick Andrew, is a century-old charitable trust dedicated exc...

Grant Range
£300 - £600

Global Fund for Community Foundations

Open

The Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF), established in 2006, is the world's only organization dedicated exclusively to advancing community p...

Grant Range
£7,000 - £20,000

God My Silent Partner Foundation

God My Silent Partner Foundation (GMSP Foundation), established in 2006 by Ramesh and Pratibha Sachdev and now led by their daughter Sonal Sachdev Pat...

Grant Range
£20,000 - £250,000

Goyal Foundation

The Goyal Foundation, formerly the Hemraj Goyal Foundation, is a family-run charity established in 2010 by the Goyal family, led by founding trustee A...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Green Room Charitable Trust

The Green Room Charitable Trust, established by trust deed on 30 November 2009, is a family-led unincorporated UK charity governed by principal truste...

Grant Range
£50,000 - £500,000

Greenwood Place

Greenwood Place, founded in 2017, is a certified B Corp philanthropy advisory firm that empowers high-net-worth individuals, families, and foundations...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £500,000

Hadrian Trust

Open

Hadrian Trust, an independent charitable grant-maker founded in 1972, focuses on improving lives in England's North East, specifically Tyne and Wear, ...

Grant Range
£500 - £2,000

Handspark Charitable Trust

Handspark Charitable Trust, established in January 2023 from an unrestricted donation by the John Haynes Discretionary Settlement Trust, is a trustee-...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

Hatch Enterprise

Open

Hatch Enterprise is a UK-registered charity founded in 2013 by Dirk Bischof to empower underrepresented entrepreneurs—particularly women (over 80% of ...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £10,000

Hilden Charitable Fund

Open

The Hilden Charitable Fund, an endowed grant-making foundation established in 1963 by Anthony and Joan Rampton, is rooted in a family ethos of social ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £7,000

HM Prison & Probation Service

Open

HM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS), an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice established in 2004 as the National Offender Management Service ...

Grant Range
£500 - £450,000

Hollick Family Foundation

Open

The Hollick Family Foundation, an endowed charitable trust established in 1997 by Lord Clive Hollick in London, manages a £40 million endowment to dis...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Home Office

Open

The Home Office, the United Kingdom's interior ministry established in 1782, serves as the lead government department for public safety, national secu...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £10,000

Human Rights Watch Charitable Trust

Human Rights Watch Charitable Trust is a UK-registered charity established to support the mission of Human Rights Watch (HRW), founded in 1978 as Hels...

Grant Range
Contact funder

J R S S T Charitable Trust

The JRSST Charitable Trust, established in 1955 by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd, embodies Quaker and liberal values inspired by Joseph Rowntre...

Grant Range
£50,000 - £150,000

Jabbs Foundation

The Jabbs Foundation is a major UK grant-maker with a broad charitable remit to advance any lawful charitable purpose, but it has evolved into a strat...

Grant Range
£50,000 - £500,000

Jill and Norman Franklin Trust

Open

The Jill and Norman Franklin Trust, founded by academic publisher Norman Franklin in memory of his wife Jill, an architectural historian, is an indepe...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Johnson & Johnson Foundation Scotland

Johnson & Johnson Foundation Scotland, established in 2007 and funded exclusively by Johnson & Johnson, drives a world without health inequities by em...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Kurt and Magda Stern Foundation

The Kurt and Magda Stern Foundation is a UK-based grantmaker founded to honour family history and personal values forged in frontline public sector wo...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Labour Behind the Label Trust

Labour Behind the Label Trust, a UK-registered charity established in 2014 with roots in the 2001 Labour Behind the Label movement, serves as the char...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £20,000

Lady Garden Foundation

The Lady Garden Foundation, established in 2014 by women affected by gynaecological cancers and rebranded from the Gynaecological Cancer Fund in 2018,...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Lankelly Chase

Lankelly Chase is an independent UK charitable foundation established in 2004 through the merger of the Lankelly Foundation and Chase Charity, both or...

Grant Range
£50,000 - £250,000

Legal Education Foundation

Open

The Legal Education Foundation (LEF), established in 2013 from the sale of the College of Law, is an independent UK grantmaker with roots in 19th-cent...

Grant Range
£20,000 - £500,000

Livewell Foundation

Open

The Livewell Foundation, established as the charitable arm of a pioneering social enterprise in health and social care, drives transformational impact...

Grant Range
£500 - £10,000

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Tips for Applying to Women & Girls Funders

Apply an intersectional analysis throughout your application, demonstrating how gender disadvantage intersects with race, disability, poverty, immigration status, and other factors for the women and girls you serve. Funders in this space expect nuanced understanding rather than treating women as a homogeneous group. If your work addresses violence against women and girls, reference the VAWG framework and present your expertise in domestic abuse, sexual violence, or harmful practices with appropriate evidence and professional standards. Show that women hold leadership positions throughout your organisation — in delivery, management, and governance — and explain how this shapes your approach. Describe how you create safe spaces for participants, including physical safety, emotional safety, and confidentiality protections, particularly for women fleeing abuse or those with insecure immigration status. Use trauma-informed approaches as a foundation for service design and explain how staff are trained and supervised to work with trauma. Present gender-disaggregated data throughout your application to demonstrate the specific impact on women and girls, including baseline data and projected outcomes. Strong applications demonstrate both direct service provision and contribution to systemic change — challenging the structures that create gender inequality alongside supporting individual women to overcome its effects.

Frequently Asked Questions about Women & Girls Grants

What grants are available for women & girls charities in the UK?

There are 89+ UK funders offering grants for women & girls charities. These range from small community grants under £5,000 to large multi-year funding programmes exceeding £100,000. Use Fundermatcher to find the best match for your organisation.

How much funding can women & girls organisations get?

Grant amounts for women & girls charities vary widely depending on the funder and project. Typical grants range from £1,000 to over £100,000. Many funders offer multi-year funding for established organisations with a strong track record.

How do I apply for women & girls grants?

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