In 2025, the Trust's focus is specifically on young women and girls who have been in the UK's criminal justice system or who are at a high risk of being drawn into it.
There are two funding rounds per year (spring and autumn). The autumn round offers grants of between £30,000 and £80,000 over two years (up £40,000 can be requested per year) for proposals focused on targeted work with high-risk young women and girls ages 11 and 30 who are on the edge of the criminal justice system. Projects will need to either be working towards reducing reoffending behaviours or reducing first convictions.
Registered charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies that are working within the UK and have a UK office can apply as long as they can clearly show that women and girls make up at least 80% of their total beneficiaries across their whole organisation.
They need to have a proven track record of running projects with vulnerable and challenging young women and girls between the ages of 11 and 30 years, and their work is both gender and trauma informed. Their average annual income over the past three years needs to be less than £1.5 million.
There is particular interest in funding projects working with young women and girls who are care experienced, come from Black or minoritized/racialised communities and work that is led by people with lived experience.
The Trust particularly welcomes applications from organisations working in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
In addition to the Main Grants, the Trust is offering Small Grants of £10,000 to grass roots organisations that are led by women and whose beneficiaries are 100% women and girls. The details are provided in a separate report.
The deadline for applications is 20 October 2025 (midnight).
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