Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Edinburgh Women's Aid |
£20,000 |
23/09/2021
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Working Together -an employability project for women affected by domestic abuse
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Smallwood Trust - Improving the financial resilience, mental health and wellbeing of women 18+. |
£50,000 |
12/07/2021
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£50,000 has been awarded to provide support to young LGBT+ women from Black and minoritised communities. The focus is on women who face the risk of domestic abuse and young women who disclose their
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£50,000 has been awarded to provide support to young LGBT+ women from Black and minoritised communities. The focus is on women who face the risk of domestic abuse and young women who disclose their LGBTI + status. Support will include provision of temporary accommodation, one to one emotional support and where necessary referred to other agencies to access counselling and access to immigration and legal services.
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Rosa UK - WTF-SHAKTI-2021 |
£50,000 |
12/07/2021
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£50,000 has been awarded to provide support to young LGBT+ women from Black and minoritised communities. The focus is on women who face the risk of domestic abuse and young women who disclose their
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£50,000 has been awarded to provide support to young LGBT+ women from Black and minoritised communities. The focus is on women who face the risk of domestic abuse and young women who disclose their LGBTI + status. Support will include provision of temporary accommodation, one to one emotional support and where necessary referred to other agencies to access counselling and access to immigration and legal services.
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Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Edinburgh Women's Aid |
£20,000 |
28/07/2020
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Working Together -an employability project for women affected by domestic abuse
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Comic Relief - Expansion of LGBTI+ project |
£6,343 |
23/06/2020
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COVID19 - We are requesting funding 1. To allow us to extend the contract to one of our LGBT+ staff to cope with increased work load and current COVID 19 situation. 2. To purchase 1 laptop3. To
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COVID19 - We are requesting funding 1. To allow us to extend the contract to one of our LGBT+ staff to cope with increased work load and current COVID 19 situation. 2. To purchase 1 laptop3. To Purchase 3 mobile phones and mobile/Wi-Fi vouchers 4. To purchase basic clothing 5. To purchase food and or food vouchers6. Travel costs for clients struggling financially and or at higher risk1 (funding to extend the current staff contract) ? help us meet the increased referrals of women experiencing domestic abuse. There has been a high increase in women with no recourse to public funds, some of them are thrown out of the house by their partners.Shakti?s Maitri project (LGBTI+ is funded by Comic Relief (tampon tax fund) the project supports BME LGBT+ and also outreach women. Initially we applied for one full time staff. There were delays in appointing the staff due to not finding the suitable person for the post. It was crucial for us to appoint a suitable person with right attitude and beliefs about sexuality to deliver the service to BME LGBT+ persons, therefore we were over cautious in recruiting. Therefore, it took us 7 months to have someone in the post. Shakti was successful in negotiating with Comic Relief to use the surplus from year 1 funding to appoint a part time until June 2020 post to kick start the project ? this has worked to the project?s advantage.We now realise that we underestimated the potential demand and resources we needed for the project. The project receives referrals from other cities in Scotland and is currently supporting referrals from Edinburgh, Stirling, Dundee and Glasgow. Although the numbers of LGBT+ person are small they are spread across Scotland, therefore takes the staff lot more time to support them ( travel time and also multi agency work is more complicated). The staff also support women fleeing domestic abuse who are living with the perpetrators.We have agencies from Aberdeen and Fife enquiring about the support we can offer to the BME LGBT+ persons. Supporting LGBT+ service users/referrals was difficult due to the confidentiality and risk to the persons, and this has been exacerbated by the COVID 19. COVID 19 has put breaks to our planned work, the project staff are unable to do the awareness raising work as well as struggling to support the LGBT+ clients who are placed in cities out with Edinburgh and or living with their families as well as dealing with the increase in new referrals.Not having the appropriate and most needed support will put these women/persons at higher risk and they may potentially lose trust in any agencies in future. Therefore, it is vital to the well-being of the BME LGBT+ persons and women who are living with the perpetrators that we continue to offer the current level of support.2 and 3 (laptop, mobiles/Wi-Fi and Vouchers)Due to lockdown and the safety of its staff and service users, Shakti stopped face to face support and is contacting its service users using technology (virtual meetings/chats), however not all service users have access to laptops and or smart phones, therefore creating a barrier in reaching to them, causing distress and frustration to both the service users and the staff. Some of the service users are young people or women with no recourse to public funds and or on very low income. Therefore we would like to purchase one laptop, mobiles and vouchers)4 and 5 (Basic clothing and food)Most of our service users are struggling with food purchase. We are receiving food from local food banks but some of the food available doesn?t meet the cultural/religious food requirements of our clients like vegetarian and halal food. With the funds received from CR we will buy appropriate food or food vouchers. We have women and their children (if any) leaving their homes with nothing and needing basic clothing and toiletries, especially this is so much difficult for women with no recourse to public funds.6 (travel)As mention above women with children and single women/ young girls are struggling with their finances and travelling to buy food and other essentials is expensive, especially when you have children; also when the lockdown rules are relaxed, we are planning to start our face to face meetings. It will be beneficial to the young persons, if we could pay their travel expenses to attend group activities. The project started a young women?s group, just now not specific to LGBT+ but the idea behind the group is to gradually build it to be specific to BAME LGBT+. What the staff have realised is that the LGBT+ they are supporting have multiple added risks compared to non LGBT+ BAME persons. This is an example to illustrate some of the challenges the staff are facing due to COVID 19The staff is supporting a young Trans person who is living with her/his mum. Due to lockdown mum allowed dad back into her home and as a result the young person got unwell and suicidal. The perpetrator is a stepdad to the young person and has been very abusive (sexually abused) towards her/him. Mother is not a protective factor in this young person?s life; she is a strict Muslim, encouraging the child to forget about the sexual abuse and doesn?t support the young person. The young person is not looked after by her/his mum ? no proper clothes and hygiene, lacks confidence. The COVID 19 has made things worse for the young person and the support she/he was receiving from us and the school. Our staff referred the young person to social work to get support, after nearly 4 weeks the social worker got back to our worker. They arranged to have a meeting with the mother and the child to discuss the safety of mother (not acknowledging the abuse suffered by the young person). Our young person requested the social worker to invite our staff to the virtual meeting but social work ignored the request. It is our staff the young person trusts and has been open with about her/his problems but still social worker seem to ignore the request. This is one of the challenges our staff face when statutory agencies undermine the support and views given by the third sector. In this difficult times the young person has only one support line which is our staff. Our staff did a very good job with the young person and continues to support her/him. The school are involved in this case but it is closed now. There is lot more to this case which I can discuss it with you in detail if you wish to.
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Scottish Government - Shakti Women's Aid |
£18,120 |
03/06/2020
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Detailed description not provided.
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DCMS - The Maitri Project |
£39,999 |
01/04/2020
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The Maitri Project delivered by Shakti Women's Aid aims to establish the first safe, trusted and confidential service for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women and young people in Scotland requiring
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The Maitri Project delivered by Shakti Women's Aid aims to establish the first safe, trusted and confidential service for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women and young people in Scotland requiring support concerning their gender or sexual identity. It will involving wrap-around support and guidance, but will place particular focus on preventing and responding to common forms of violence faced by these target group, including domestic and so-called honour-based violence. They will raise awareness of LGBTI issues for this group among BME communities in Edinburgh and other areas of Scotland (Dundee, Stirling and Fife), and among service providers and decision makers.
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DCMS - The Maitri Project |
£29,999 |
10/12/2018
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The Maitri Project delivered by Shakti Women's Aid aims to establish the first safe, trusted and confidential service for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women and young people in Scotland requiring
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The Maitri Project delivered by Shakti Women's Aid aims to establish the first safe, trusted and confidential service for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women and young people in Scotland requiring support concerning their gender or sexual identity. It will involving wrap-around support and guidance, but will place particular focus on preventing and responding to common forms of violence faced by these target group, including domestic and so-called honour-based violence. They will raise awareness of LGBTI issues for this group among BME communities in Edinburgh and other areas of Scotland (Dundee, Stirling and Fife), and among service providers and decision makers.
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Comic Relief - The Maitri Project |
£119,996 |
06/11/2018
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The Maitri Project delivered by Shakti Women's Aid aims to establish the first safe, trusted and confidential service for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women and young people in Scotland requiring
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The Maitri Project delivered by Shakti Women's Aid aims to establish the first safe, trusted and confidential service for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women and young people in Scotland requiring support concerning their gender or sexual identity. It will involving wrap-around support and guidance, but will place particular focus on preventing and responding to common forms of violence faced by these target group, including domestic and so-called honour-based violence. They will raise awareness of LGBTI issues for this group among BME communities in Edinburgh and other areas of Scotland (Dundee, Stirling and Fife), and among service providers and decision makers.
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National Lottery Community Fund - Domestic Abuse Outreach Service For Black Minority Ethnic Women |
£386,132 |
20/08/2018
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This group will use the funding to deliver an outreach service in Tayside, Perthshire, Forth Valley and the Lothians over three years. The service provides specialist support to BME women, their
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This group will use the funding to deliver an outreach service in Tayside, Perthshire, Forth Valley and the Lothians over three years. The service provides specialist support to BME women, their children and young people experiencing and/or fleeing domestic abuse, forced marriage or honour based violence.
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National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Shakti Women`s Aid |
£10,000 |
26/09/2016
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The Real Women, Unheard Story'
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National Lottery Community Fund - Black and Minority Ethnic Outreach and Independent Living |
£419,991 |
12/03/2014
60 |
Black and Minority Ethnic Outreach and Independent Living
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National Lottery Community Fund - Black and minority ethnic outreach and independent living project |
£549,740 |
01/02/2012
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The project will benefit Black Minority Ethic women across Aberdeenshire, Dundee, Perth, Stirling, East Lothian and West Lothian. The project will provide emotional and practical support for women
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The project will benefit Black Minority Ethic women across Aberdeenshire, Dundee, Perth, Stirling, East Lothian and West Lothian. The project will provide emotional and practical support for women and their children including the provision of basic white goods such as ovens and washing machines. The provision of such items is recognised as a key factor in helping woman stay out of abusive relationships. The grant will fund salaries, travel, training, white goods, office equipment and overhead costs.
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