Rosa Voices From The Frontline Fund

Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline fund, now in its eighth year of running, offers grants of up to £10,000 over 18 monthsto women’s and girls’ organisations to support campaigning and influencing work that enables women and girls to use their voice to achieve change. 

Rosa is proud to champion the campaigning and influencing work that women’s and girls’ organisations do, as they recognise that every progress in culture, law and practice in women’s and girls’ lives over the last two hundred years has been pioneered by women and girls, organising and mobilising. 

Women’s and girls’ organisations are at the forefront of addressing social issues. They believe change comes about when women and girls who have lived experience of injustice and inequality get heard. 

However, there remains a critical need for funding for women’s and girls’ organisations to deliver activism and campaigning to raise awareness of the issues women and girls face. This is why Voices from the Frontline exists.

They are accepting applications for the Fund until 4:00pm on Tuesday 9th December 2025.

They will fund organisations that will raise women’s voices and challenge inequality, including: 

• Campaigning for changes in policy and laws including activities such as petitions, social media campaigns and lobbying.
• National campaigns that address issues that affect women and girls
• Influencing community leaders and power holders about issues that affect women and girls in a particular place or community
• Gathering evidence or producing tools and reports which enable women and girls and women’s organisations to campaign for change
• Video and media campaigns about specific issues facing women
• Training activists in campaigning, advocacy, lobbying or public speaking

Here are some examples of Voices from the Frontline grants they have supported in the past: 

• A campaign to raise awareness of birth trauma and improve support services for racially and culturally marginalised women
• Training women with lived experience of the criminal justice system to share their stories and push for changes for women in prison
• A campaign to address drink-spiking in Belfast
• A video and workshops to raise awareness of honour-based abuse to improve the understanding of the issue and influence policymakers to introduce a statutory definition of this abuse
• A campaign to raise awareness of the lack of support for Black women and non-binary people when accessing ADHD diagnoses and services
• Influencing MPs to address the sexual violence faced by asylum-seeking women in Home Office-provided accommodation
• The first period walk in Scotland, addressing the stigma associated with heavy periods and period-related conditions and advocating for inclusive period products

To be eligible for the Voices from the Frontline programme, your organisation must: 

1. Meet Rosa’s definition of a women’s and girls’ organisation. Rosa defines women’s and girls’ organisations as those which are run by, for and with women and girls. This means that your organisation will be governed and led by women. It will have a Board of Trustees (or similar) where the Chair is a woman, and the majority of members are women. The majority of your organisation’s employee leadership team will be women. Your organisation will have the principal objective of working with women and/or girls and the majority of your organisation’s beneficiaries are, and will always be, women and or girls.
2. Be a not-for-profit organisation.
3. Have a written governing document e.g., a constitution or set of rules.
4. Have a governing body with at least 3 unrelated members.
5. Have a UK-based bank or building society account in the name of your organisation with at least 2 unrelated signatories.
6. Have been active for one year and be able to produce annual accounts for a whole year.
7. Have an appropriate safeguarding policy in place.
8. Not have received a grant through Voices from the Frontline round 7 (which were awarded in April 2025).

They will not fund the following activities:

• Responsibilities of statutory agencies
• Profit-making work
• Party political activity
• Activities promoting religious beliefs
• Work that will take place outside the UK
• Applications from individuals
• Overseas travel
• Interest payments on loans
• Building purchase
• Costs that your organisation has already incurred (‘retrospective costs’)