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Annual Report and Accounts 2024-2025

Rosa is the only UK-wide funder and sector builder dedicated to organisations led by and for women and girls. In 2024-25, 61 grants worth £900,252 were awarded through the Stand With Us (£537k, 23 grants, VAWG frontline) and Voices from the Frontline (£363k, 38 grants, campaigning) programmes. Over £11.5m has been invested since 2008, impacting 400,000+ women and girls. 642 individual attendances were recorded across 55 hours of free training; 436 people attended the annual conference; and total income was £1.44m.

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About

Stand With Us grants programme (organisational development for VAWG frontline organisations); Voices from the Frontline grants (campaigning and influencing for women and girls); Rise Fund (organisational development for Black and racially minoritised women and girls organisations); free training and networking; annual conference; sector research and advocacy; ACF VAWG Funder Network co-chair; Thrive Network (donor community) Custom geography from upload: UK-wide (London HQ)

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 61 grants totalling £900,252 awarded in 2024-25; £537,322 across 23 Stand With Us grants; £362,930 across 38 Voices from the Frontline grants
Key Metric 2 £11.5m+ invested in women and girls organisations since 2008; 400,000+ women and girls impacted; £7.50 raised for every £1 invested in organisations using grant for fundraising
Key Metric 3 436 attended annual summer conference (up from 390); 642 individual attendances across 34 training and networking sessions (55 hours of content); 98% rated training excellent or very good

Key Outcomes

  • 50% of organisations used Stand With Us grant to attract funding from other sources; £2.1m additional funding raised by grantees; 97% of Rise Fund grantees reported more effective leadership
  • 80% of Rise Fund grantees implemented more effective systems and processes; report 'Underfunded, under resourced and under the radar' featured on BBC Woman's Hour; roundtable with Minister for Safeguarding and VAWG Jess Phillips MP
  • Total income £1.44m; total expenditure £1.67m (net deficit £230k due to timing of grant awarding); 54% of Stand With Us grantees operating in top 10% most disadvantaged areas; 50% of Stand With Us grantees led by and for Black and racially minoritised women; only 1.8% of UK charitable grant funding goes to women and girls organisations

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
33,600+ people directly supported; 52,000+ indirectly supported (2025)
Key Metric 2
£19.6M raised in fundraising income, up £3.4M on 2024
Key Metric 3
352 socially isolated people supported by community outreach (up 11%)
97% of caseworking enquiries received tailored intervention; 95% beneficiary satisfaction