Norfolk Women’s Fund supports women’s economic empowerment in Norfolk, offering small grants to seed fund transformational ideas.

NWF specifically wants to support nascent projects or initiatives that are finding it difficult to get support anywhere else.

They aim to offer small amounts that could make a big difference. For example,

• Seed or development funding to help you to test your idea or make a case to larger funders.
• Upskilling or capacity building for you or your team, that will enable you to do more.
• Projects that have the potential to be transformational (ie. they have longer-term ambitions to change systems, organizations or barriers to equality).

Applications should be focused on women’s economic empowerment. That is the process of achieving women’s equal access to and control over economic resources, and ensuring they can use them to exert increased control over other areas of their lives. It can include:

• Skills and learning
• Employability and job search
• Self-employment and entrepreneurship
• Assisting women to access better quality and higher-level employment
• Career and life planning
• Childcare and dependent care to enable participation in activities
• Social protection (ie. systems to help people cope with economic shocks, including pensions, unemployment, health etc.)
• Access to financial services and information

They welcome applications that target groups of women who are particularly disadvantaged, including, but not limited to, those from particular ethnic origins or with a disability.

Funding Information

They usually offer a grant of up to £5,000, but they may consider more for exceptional cases.

Eligible Areas

Breckland, Broadland, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn & West Norfolk, North Norfolk, Norwich, and South Norfolk.

Who can apply?

Charity, Church/PCC, Parish/Town Council, Social Enterprise/CIC, and Voluntary/Community Group.

For more information, visit Norfolk Community Foundation.