Our approach to grant-making is a little unusual…
Grants
Bath Women’s Fund members pool their monthly donations and, once a year, give their gathered funds to local groups as a grant.
Like other giving circles, part of our role is to encourage women to get involved with philanthropy. Members are involved in the grant making process: they select the theme, review applications, learn about the organisations applying, provide mentoring support to applicants, and vote on who receives the main grant.
For details of all the groups we have supported so far, please look at our charities page.
2026
Our grant making theme for 2026 (voted for by our members) is:
Meeting the needs of families who are most impacted by the increased cost of living, For example, organisations providing food, warmth, benefits advice, and preventing homelessness.
We are now CLOSED to applications.
Our members are in the process of reviewing all the Expressions of Interest received by the deadline and we will be in touch with all the organisations by mid-March. A small number of organisations will be invited to complete a more detailed application form and we will anounce the three charity finalists in May.
