Applications to the Voices from the Frontline Fund are currently closed.

Voices from the Frontline

Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline fund, now in its sixth year of running, offers one-year grants of up to £7,000 to women’s and girls’ organisations to support campaigning and influencing work that enables women and girls to use their voice to achieve change.

Rosa is proud to champion the campaigning and influencing work that women’s and girls’ organisations do, as we recognise that every progress in culture, law and practice in women’s and girls’ lives over the last two hundred years has been pioneered by women and girls, organising and mobilising.

Women’s and girls’ organisations are at the forefront of addressing social issues and we believe change comes about when women and girls who have lived experience of injustice and inequality get heard.

However, there remains a critical need for funding for women’s and girls’ organisations to deliver activism and campaigning to raise awareness of the issues women and girls face. This is why Voices from the Frontline exists.

The current fund is now closed. The application guidance, FAQs and eligibility criteria below.

Fund Status: Closed

Application Deadline: 11/10/2023

Grant Sizes: £500 – £7,000

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 Voices from the Frontline grant from Rosa in 2022.

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 in a particular place or community.
  • Gathering evidence or producing tools and reports which enable women and women’s organisations to campaign for change.
  • Mentoring or training for women on how to participate in public life and influence social policy.
  • 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 to challenge mainstream statutory service providers and commissioners to tailor services to better meet the needs of South Asian women.
  • A campaign for maternity and breastfeeding rights targeting maternity and strategy boards and local MPs.
  • Increasing diversity in political representation in Wales to ensure women from Black and minoritised backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and disabled women are represented.
  • A campaign to raise awareness of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on women asylum seekers and refugees using press and social media to influence local and central government.

To apply, please 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.
  2. 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 11th October. 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 Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline Application Guidance 2023 and Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline FAQs 2023.

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

21st September 1:00-2:00 pm

3rd October 4:00-5:00 pm

If you have an enquiry that is not covered in this application guidance or one of our webinars, you can send your enquiry to grants@rosauk.org. Please insert ‘Voices from the Frontline programme enquiry’ as your email subject and provide your organisation and contact name.