Funding to Support the Wellbeing of UK’s Service Women

Registered charities, CICs, and Armed Forces Units can apply for grants ranging from £25,000 up to £100,000 for one and two year projects that tackle the underlying issues unique to serving women in the UK.

The funding is for projects that help towards enabling serving women to make informed choices and improve their access to services that enhance their wellbeing.

Projects should look to address the needs of Service women affected by a range of issues which are particular to (or exacerbated by) serving in the Armed Forces, as well as issues where support may be less readily accessible than it is for women in civilian life.

Projects need to meet one of the following outcomes:

• Enabling Service women to choose activities and/or find advice that improves their wellbeing, either preventatively or at times of crisis.
• Opening up choices for Service women who may not otherwise know where to seek help for issues which specifically affect them.

In addition, projects must meet at least one of the programme themes:

• Work-life balance, enjoying and achieving.
• Mental and physical health and wellbeing.
• Support for marginalised and minority women, including those who are neurodiverse, have additional educational needs, are from Black and Minoritised Ethnic communities, are less able to access services due to lack of confidence using social media or online platforms, need support with their sexuality or gender identity, are from rural or isolated communities or from low-income backgrounds.

The funding can be used for most things needed to run the project or activity, including people’s time, costs of delivering work online or buying/hiring equipment.

Projects are to start between December 2024 and March 2025.

The deadline for applications is 25 September 2024 (12 noon).

Further details can be found here: Service Women: Seen & Heard programme 2024/25 : Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust