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 foundAllen Lane Foundation
OpenThe Allen Lane Foundation, an independent grant-making trust established in 1966 by Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, champions progressive UK...
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...
Ashla Charitable Trust
OpenThe Ashla Charitable Trust is a family-based grant-making charity dedicated to advancing arts, humanitarian aid, education, and women's rights through...
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...
Baron Davenport's Charity
OpenBaron Davenport's Charity, an endowed trust established in 1914 by the will of Baron Charles Davenport in Birmingham, is dedicated to alleviating acut...
Barrow Cadbury Trust
OpenThe Barrow Cadbury Trust, an independent endowed charitable foundation established in 1920 by Quaker philanthropist Barrow Cadbury and his wife Gerald...
Bdo Charitable Trust
OpenThe BDO Charitable Trust, registered charity number 278589 (formerly BDO Stoy Hayward and Stoy Hayward Charitable Trusts), is a generalist grant-makin...
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation
OpenBedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation (BLCF), established in 1999 and registered as a charity in 2001 by founders Geoffrey Farr MBE DL, Sir Samu...
Blue Thread
Blue Thread is a London-based family foundation established by the Grabiner family, leveraging resources from decades in media and investment sectors....
Bridges Impact Foundation
Bridges Impact Foundation, a UK-registered charity established in 2009 by Bridges Fund Management, drives catalytic philanthropic support for innovati...
Brook Trust
The Brook Trust is an independent, privately funded grant-making charity (registered with the Charity Commission, no. 1123562) dedicated to tackling h...
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...
Charity Entrepreneurship
OpenCharity Entrepreneurship is an effective altruism-inspired incubator founded to create high-impact nonprofits by identifying evidence-based interventi...
Coles-Medlock Foundation
OpenThe Coles-Medlock Foundation is a family-run grant-making charity established by Bath-based philanthropists David and Jacky Medlock to alleviate pover...
Comic Relief
OpenComic 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...
Commonweal Housing Limited
OpenCommonweal Housing Limited is an independent action learning charity dedicated to tackling social injustice through innovative housing-based solutions...
Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside
OpenCommunity Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside (CFLM), established in 1997 as Sefton Community Foundation and evolving into its current form, is ...
Corra Foundation
OpenCorra Foundation, an independent Scottish grant-maker established in 1985 (originally Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland), drives positive change, opp...
Coutts Charitable Foundation
OpenThe Coutts Charitable Foundation, established in 2013 and rooted in the 19th-century philanthropic legacy of Thomas Coutts and Angela Burdett-Coutts, ...
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 ...
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...
Eaton Fund
The Eaton Fund, a UK-based charitable incorporated organisation established in 1954 by the Eaton family, provides practical financial assistance to pr...
Elizabeth Rathbone Charity
OpenThe Elizabeth Rathbone Charity, a family-stewarded grantmaker rooted in Merseyside's philanthropic legacy, advances welfare for disadvantaged people t...
Firebird Foundation
The Firebird Foundation, established in 2021 by Olivia Hall, drives equality and justice for women and children worldwide through a systemic approach ...
Football Foundation
OpenThe 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...
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
OpenThe Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), established in September 2020 through the merger of the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office and ...
Frederick Andrew Trust
OpenThe Frederick Andrew Trust, established in 1922 from the legacy of Lincoln solicitor Frederick Andrew, is a century-old charitable trust dedicated exc...
Global Fund for Community Foundations
OpenThe Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF), established in 2006, is the world's only organization dedicated exclusively to advancing community p...
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...
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...
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...
Greenwood Place
Greenwood Place, founded in 2017, is a certified B Corp philanthropy advisory firm that empowers high-net-worth individuals, families, and foundations...
Hadrian Trust
OpenHadrian Trust, an independent charitable grant-maker founded in 1972, focuses on improving lives in England's North East, specifically Tyne and Wear, ...
Handspark Charitable Trust
Handspark Charitable Trust, established in January 2023 from an unrestricted donation by the John Haynes Discretionary Settlement Trust, is a trustee-...
Hatch Enterprise
OpenHatch Enterprise is a UK-registered charity founded in 2013 by Dirk Bischof to empower underrepresented entrepreneurs—particularly women (over 80% of ...
Hilden Charitable Fund
OpenThe Hilden Charitable Fund, an endowed grant-making foundation established in 1963 by Anthony and Joan Rampton, is rooted in a family ethos of social ...
HM Prison & Probation Service
OpenHM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS), an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice established in 2004 as the National Offender Management Service ...
Hollick Family Foundation
OpenThe Hollick Family Foundation, an endowed charitable trust established in 1997 by Lord Clive Hollick in London, manages a £40 million endowment to dis...
Home Office
OpenThe Home Office, the United Kingdom's interior ministry established in 1782, serves as the lead government department for public safety, national secu...
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...
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...
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...
Jill and Norman Franklin Trust
OpenThe Jill and Norman Franklin Trust, founded by academic publisher Norman Franklin in memory of his wife Jill, an architectural historian, is an indepe...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Legal Education Foundation
OpenThe 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...
Livewell Foundation
OpenThe Livewell Foundation, established as the charitable arm of a pioneering social enterprise in health and social care, drives transformational impact...
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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.
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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.
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