Grant News

The Another Way Women’s Foundation (AWWF), a UK-based volunteer-led charity, has announced its next round of funding is now open for applications. The foundation supports initiatives that empower women and girls, with a focus on sustainable, community-led projects addressing gender inequality.

This funding round will focus on supporting projects/initiatives/services for women and girls in BUSINESS and in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Applications will also be considered for other areas, but preference will be given to applications in the focus areas if demand exceeds funds available.

Two grants are available.

• The Another Way Women's Foundation grant offers up to £5,000 for larger projects that deliver measurable and lasting impact.
• A smaller option, the “£1,000 for 1,000 Words” grant, provides £1,000 in seed funding for applicants who can explain their idea in just 1,000 words.

Applications are open to UK-based individuals and not-for-profit organisations, provided that proposals align with the foundation’s charitable aims of relief, education, empowerment, and the advancement of women.

The grants typically fall into two areas:

• Project support – ‘seed’ funding for pilot or start-up initiatives to show ‘proof of concept’, with a view to enabling partner organisations to go on to apply for further/larger grants from other funders to expand/increase the project scope, or to attain self-sustainability for the project.
• Services support – aid funding to enable support organisations and service providers to pay for essential service delivery

The closing date for applications is 30 September 2025.