By Liz Griffiths | Head of Fundraising and Communications
Rosa would like to thank all of our donors for their incredible support last year. Here, we provide our
Annual Report of the Trustees and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021.
About Rosa
Rosa is a grantmaking charity that funds women’s organisations working to make the UK a fairer, safer place for women and girls. We only support charities that are led by, and for, the women and girls they exist to support. Without an endowment, we rely entirely on charitable support to deliver our activities across the four nations. Over the past year, we distributed £3 million to hundreds of women and girls’ organisations across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Annual report for the year ending 31st March 2021
Rosa’s latest Annual Report looks back an exceptional year, in which women and girls’ organisations faced unprecedented demand for their services. Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, organisations continued to support women affected by poverty, inequality, sexism and racism; women facing destitution, women on low income, women whose labour is invisible and women who cannot access any support because of their precarious immigration status. Much of what they do is undervalued and under resourced – mirroring the lives of the women and girls they work with and advocate for.
Rosa continued to work tirelessly to resource and champion those organisations. Key areas of our work included:
As we look toward 2022, grant-making will continue to be Rosa’s core activity and we are planning to run three grant making programmes in 2022.
Rosa will shortly be opening the new Stand with Us fund in 2022, using the half a million pounds raised by Reclaim These Streets in response to the appalling kidnapping and brutal murder of Sarah Everard. The fund will gift grants in Summer 2022 and will be used to fund organisations working to address male violence against women and girls in all its forms. Until then, Rosa is fundraising to increase the amount of money available to give in onward grants.
Rosa’s Rise Fund, for organisations led by and for Black and minoritised women, opened for applications in November 21 and we raised over £1.3million. It was developed by Trustees who are all women of colour and a ‘Critical Friends Group’ made up of women of colour working in women’s organisations across the UK. The fund will provide organisational development funding through two-year grants of up to £40,000.
In Autumn 2022/23, we plan to relaunch Rosa’s annual Voices from the Frontline grant giving programme, to help women-led organisations to launch campaigns, events and workshops that influence positive change for women and girls across the UK.
None of this work would be possible without the support of our donors and partners. We wish to thank you for your contribution to making the UK a safer and fairer place for women and girls.
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