She Leads
YWCA GB launched the She Leads grant in 2019 with the aim to provide funding, leadership and advocacy opportunities to young women from the United Kingdom.
Currently the grants are for organisations who work to empower young women who are currently underserved in the area of leadership development.
Young women and girl’s transformative leadership:
Ensuring the full implementation of a human rights-based approach to young women and girls’ leadership in the context of shared, transformative and intergenerational leadership.
Realising human rights:
YWCA women, young women and girls become the driving force in claiming and influencing women’s rights policies, leading change and setting priorities for Young Women’s leadership and realising human rights.
The fund prioritises grants to organisations or individuals who:
Work with young women aged 15 -30 years old.
Work with young women who are usually overlooked for leadership opportunities or in decision making processes.
Work to promote young women's leadership and advocacy.
Fully complete the Application Form (all requirements fulfilled).
She Leads fund for 2020-21
As 2019 was our first time running the She Leads grant, we are taking a moment to properly evaluate and reflect on the impact of the 2019 round of funding. Also, we are working to respond to the new pressures that COVID-19 has placed on our grant recipients and the young women they work with. Watch this space!
2019
Grant Recipients
The first round of the She Leads fund was opened in 2019. YWCA GB awarded four grants to the following organisations to deliver projects, workshops and/or programmes aimed at young women’s leadership and advocacy
YWCA Yorkshire has developed the ‘Trinity Project Pilot’ which supports parents to become more resilient by tackling the 3 most toxic barriers to confident mothers and happy secure children: domestic abuse, poor maternal mental health and lack of parenting skills.
Tyne & Wear Citizens (Citizen’s UK) aims to develop young female leaders across Tyne & Wear via training and follow on support, in order that young women’s participation in decision making processes in their communities will be increased. This project will therefore increase young women’s participation in local communities and public life by bringing together women of different institutions, faiths, cultures and ethnicities to strengthen their community and consolidate their power.
Gal-dem aims to upskill women and non-binary people of colour in the media industry and provide effective training for a new generation of women & non-binary journalists.
National Alliance of Women’s Organisations (NAWO) aims to empower young women to engage with gender inequality issues on a global platform. Through the She Leads grant NAWO was able to support the participation of one young women in the Commission on the Status of Women 64 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York where she helped to organize an event surrounding the issue of mental health and wellbeing in young women. She was also invited to speak about other issues affecting women around the globe.
