Smallwood Trust

2023

Women Thrive Fund Impact Report

£1.9 million distributed to 70 women's and girls' organisations across the UK; grants of up to £50,000 per organisation; funded by Government's Tampon Tax Fund via DCMS

Key Metric 1

70 women's and girls' sector organisations funded; fund delivered in partnership with Rosa UK; grants targeted at mental health and wellbeing and financial resilience

Key Metric 2

Fund responded to reports from women's organisations that declining mental health, increased emotional trauma and increased poverty were biggest concerns post-pandemic; focus on specialist, by-and-for women's organisations

Key Metric 3

Together Women partnership: women given direct decision-making power over grants reported significant impacts on financial stability, employment, housing and mental health — demonstrating value of trust-based grantmaking

Community & Social Justice Poverty

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Women Thrive Fund Impact Report