An ethical endowment for the long-term financial security of the women's sector

The women’s sector doesn’t need more duplication. It needs more resources, better collaboration and longer-term, core funding. That’s why the Women’s Forever Fund (FF) is exploring how it can work with established women’s funds and trusted funding partners, rather than building every part of its grant-making infrastructure from scratch. Organisations such as Rosa, Smallwood Trust and UK Community Foundations have developed valuable expertise, relationships and approaches to

Bridget Phillipson is the Minister for Women and Equalities who has launched the misogyny taskforce Last week, the Government launched a new National Taskforce for Tackling Misogyny. Bringing together ministers, women's organisations, charities, academics and local leaders, its remit is ambitious: to look at how misogynistic attitudes develop, how they spread through online spaces, workplaces and communities, and what can be done to prevent them. It's a welcome recognition th

The biggest challenges we're facing right now - whether it's social care, regional inequality, violence against women and girls, the housing crisis or women's economic inequality - weren't created overnight. These are problems that have developed over decades, spun by a system that pursues endless growth and profit over people. They won't be solved by a single funding round, a three-year project or the next Spending Review. Increasingly, and as the climate crisis starts to pr