LANCASHIRE WOMEN

Enabling financially vulnerable women to access a package of financial, employability and confidence building support through the delivery of LifeSkills sessions, empowering them to thrive and be more financially resilient.

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant of £90,000, a percentage of which the organisation uses to run the programme (shown here), and the remainder ....more

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant of £90,000, a percentage of which the organisation uses to run the programme (shown here), and the remainder is awarded as hardship grants to individual women 18+, who are further supported by the organisation's specialist services. Percentages are agreed with Smallwood in advance.

A one-off payment (Uplift Grant) to support organisation's operations and overheads during the cost-of-living crisis

Money & Energy Advice by Lancashire Women

The funding will be used to provide emotional health and wellbeing support to women in Blackpool struggling with different complexities. This will increase beneficiaries’ ability to cope under stress gaining confidence and integrating social ....more

The funding will be used to provide emotional health and wellbeing support to women in Blackpool struggling with different complexities. This will increase beneficiaries’ ability to cope under stress gaining confidence and integrating social interactivity. Furthermore beneficiaries are then supported to use their development and experiences to assist others influence and shape their community.

To further increase the sustainability of the sector, and to provide funding for services and interventions.

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual women 18+ integrated with their specialist support ....more

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual women 18+ integrated with their specialist support services.

We want to provide a therapeutic wellbeing service in Lancashire Women’s Preston centre.

To support organisations which are developing a whole systems approach to female offenders across the country.

The womens community sector grants scheme offers £2.5 million in funding for core costs to promote greater financial stability throughout the sector.

Grant funding to members of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance for priority project work in support of DHSC, NHS England and Improvement and PHE strategic priorities.

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Covid19 - This project will deliver one to one, holistic support for young women and girls living in poverty in East Lancashire, whose ability to engage in education and employment is affected by COVID-19, developing resilience and employable skills.

Lancashire Women Money Advice Service

This project is for Lancashire Women's Centre to develop a solution for early intervention support services for women and girls in the North-West, to prevent escalation and crisis. The organisation will engage in user research to identify the ....more

This project is for Lancashire Women's Centre to develop a solution for early intervention support services for women and girls in the North-West, to prevent escalation and crisis. The organisation will engage in user research to identify the barriers women experience to wellbeing, and co-produce solutions with women and girls with lived experience of the issue. This will enable women to reach out before problems escalate and manage their own recovery. Learning from this work will be shared across the UK.

To build upon the progress in thedevelopment of a Female Offenders Whole System Approach. To establish a post which works outside of organisational silos to drive a collective strategy to meet the holistic needs of female offenders.

Our project will support the development of effective womens peer support across the North West, helping to improve quality, raise awareness of impact and increase provision.A Strategic Network Coordinator will engage with established networks ....more

Our project will support the development of effective womens peer support across the North West, helping to improve quality, raise awareness of impact and increase provision.A Strategic Network Coordinator will engage with established networks supporting women facing multiple disadvantage, including; Fulfilling Lives and MEAM networks, county Reducing Reoffending Boards, women's organisation alliances, infrastructure bodies supporting such as the Community Foundation for Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside (managing the new Women''s Fund), and specialist infrastructure bodies supporting communities such as BME and LBTQ women. They will gather additional data, impact evidence, best practice and case studies which will be used to develop shared resources (e.g. presentations, best practice tool kits) and help apply a gender lens to existing tools.We will foster networks of practice, extending an invitation to stakeholders identified above to the programme learning and capacity building events, and hosting additional localised/thematic networking groups. We will explore the use of digital tools (e.g Slack) to support sustained access to a network of practice.We will support increased access to peer support, for example by improving the ability of providers of women's peer support to articulate the impact of their provision (e.g. exploring effective outcome measures) and by engaging funders as part of our learning networks.We will plan, promote, coordinate and manage four learning events over the course of the year. These will be held in central locations across the NW, though considering the spread of applicants. We have internal capacity and expertise around event planning and marketing,

To provide free access physical activity as a progression route for women to sustain their overall mental health and emotional wellbeing

Lancashire Women's Centre will deliver a new service to support women's emotional health and wellbeing at their Blackpool Centre. It will support women who have experienced trauma, abuse, exploitation and economic disadvantage through a range of ....more

Lancashire Women's Centre will deliver a new service to support women's emotional health and wellbeing at their Blackpool Centre. It will support women who have experienced trauma, abuse, exploitation and economic disadvantage through a range of activities. These include one to one counselling, therapeutic sessions, training courses and a peer support programme.

To reduce reoffending rates of female offenders and provide holistic support to some of the most vulnerable women in society.

The WSA grant scheme of £800k provides seed funding for organisations to develop a joined-up, multi-agency approach to female offenders (and other women at risk of offending) in their local area, to address risk factors such as mental health, ....more

The WSA grant scheme of £800k provides seed funding for organisations to develop a joined-up, multi-agency approach to female offenders (and other women at risk of offending) in their local area, to address risk factors such as mental health, domestic violence and sexual abuse, and accommodation, amongst other needs that may be a factor in their offending.

towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a women's centre in Blackpool

renovation of internal rooms for a charity which works with prisoners and ex-offenders in Lancashire

towards three years' salaries of the Centre Coordinator and an Apprentice at a new Women's Centre supporting vulnerable women in Blackpool

the costs of the street sex worker project including salaries, volunteer expenses, administration, management, marketing and publicity costs

Towards Project costs Towards the salary of the counselling/volunteer co-ordinator and some core costs.

Towards volunteer training and related costs.