Another Way Women’s Foundation to Open for General Applications 1 January 2026

Funding to make the world a brighter and better place for women and girls in England and Scotland

Another Way Women’s Foundation is an independent, volunteer-led, grant-making charity dedicated to enabling a brighter and fairer future for women and girls through financial support, education, empowerment and advancement.

The Foundation supports impactful projects and services with the aim of accelerating gender equality, effecting system change and advancing women’s lives, sustainably, at both an individual and community level.

UK registered charities and other not-for-profit organisations based and working in England and Scotland can apply for either of the following grants:

• Another Way Women’s Foundation grants are for any type of project, initiative, service aimed at advancing and empowering women, creating positive social change, sustainably impacting communities, or indeed anything that makes the world a brighter and better place for women and girls.
• The ‘£1000 for 1000 words’ grants provide ‘seed funding’ to kick start things on a project or service aimed at advancing women’s lives for the better.

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 organisation and service providers to pay for essential service delivery.

The Foundation has announced that from January 2026, there will be two application windows each year:

• ​January is for general applications supporting women and girls in any area.
• ​September is for specific applications supporting women and girls only in the stated focus area of that year:
  • September 2026 – Sport and Leisure
  • September 2027 – Environment, Eco and Sustainability
  • September 2028 – The Arts

The next application round is for general applications supporting women and girls in any area.