Glasgow Girl’s Football Club: £9,408 in 2019, Tampon Tax Community Fund: Purpose: to contribute towards providing training and qualifications for 12 members to become volunteer football coaches. Achievements: Young women achieving level 3 coaching qualifications: After a delay due to Covid restrictions we started the programme on 12th May2021, running through to 27th October 2021.…
Improving Health and Well-being
Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from anxiety, one in four women will require treatment for depression and women spend more time experiencing ill-health then men (18.8 years). In Scotland, a woman who lives in a less deprived area can live up to 7.5 years longer than a woman who comes from a most deprived area. Improving a women’s health and general well being will make them to feel better about themselves which increases energy and concentration which will reflect in their professional and social lives.
Uddingston Hockey Club
Goal! girls and the SFA Coaching Qualification
Creativity during Covid
Libertie Project, Inverness: £4899 Covid grant 2019: Supporting women through Covid leading to a new social enterprise development Purpose: Providing self care kits to women using the project to sustain them through Covid Achievements: In total we reached 98 women across the Highlands who had not used our services before through a referral partner network…
Keeping pennies in pockets with help from Musselburgh CAB
Musselburgh CAB: £30,000 over 3 years, Tampon Tax 2016: A project which explored ways of developing practical and financial skills for women who had survived abuse or had other contacts with criminal justice and which has led to some follow on funding. Purpose: A project to improve the financial literacy of women survivors of domestic…
Access to industry – securing accredited qualifications
Access to Industry, Edinburgh: £4942 2016 Tampon Tax: Funding for beauty therapy course for vulnerable women which developed expertise in on line delivery of practical courses and new partnerships with agencies working with vulnerable women contributing to on going work. Purpose: to run five beauty therapy courses, all delivered online, 4 introductory courses and a…