Another Way Women’s Foundation (AWWF) 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.

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

  • ​January will be for GENERAL applications supporting women and girls in any area.
  • ​September will be for SPECIFIC applications supporting women and girls only in the stated focus area of that year.

The focus areas will be:

  • September 2026 – Sport and Leisure
  • September 2027 –  Environment, Eco and Sustainability
  • September 2028 – The Arts

Who Can Apply

UK registered charities and other not-for-profit organisations can apply.

Eligible Expenditure

All applications must be in line with and supportive of the Foundation’s charitable purpose: to enable a brighter and fairer future for women and girls through financial support, education, empowerment and advancement, and to accelerate gender equality, effect system change and advance women’s lives, sustainably, at both an individual and community level – as well as the Foundation’s values and ethos – which are to be empowering and enabling, community- and people-centric, passionate and inspiring, and trusted and respectful.

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.

How To Apply

Applications open on 1 January 2026 and close on 30 January 2026. This round is for general applications supporting women and girls in any area.

Guidance notes and application forms can be found on the Another Way Women’s Foundation website.

The Foundation aims to respond to all applications to say whether or not they have been successful within four to six weeks of the published closing date.

Successful applicants can expect to receive funds within two to three weeks from hearing that their application has been awarded.

Unsuccessful applicants may apply again.

Contact the Foundation for further information.

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Contacts

For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:

  1. Enquiries
    Another Way Women’s Foundation
    Moss House Farm
    Lowes Lane
    Gawsworth
    Macclesfield
    Cheshire
    SK11 9QR
    Tel: 07841975950
    Email: he***@**********wf.org