Supporting women in need

For many years the Eaton Fund has provided practical and timely assistance to women, either on their own or with their children, who have found themselves in crisis, compounded by hardship.  Our funding programme builds on our experience of supporting these women.  Our intentions are:

• To with partner organisations whose aims are clearly aligned with ours
• To spread our funding throughout the UK
• To be open to women across our diverse population
• To help women who may be overlooked by other funders
• To use the opportunity to learn from our partners

We are partnering with organisations whose work is well known to us. These organisations support women not just with grants, but with ‘wraparound’ care such as counselling, parenting advice, tenancy support, job training, benefits checks and budgeting, legal and immigration advice, and help with insolvency.  Partner organisations frequently assign a case worker whose continuing moral support can be the help that a woman needs when she feels isolated and distressed.

Our partners cover a range of specialisms including help for women from minority communities, refugees, women involved with the criminal justice system, women struggling with addiction, women who experience homelessness, young care leavers, and women fleeing domestic abuse. In many cases beneficiaries have experienced a range of these problems.

Most of our partners are using our funding to help women to set up or maintain safe homes and lives for themselves and their children. One organisation, Christians Against Poverty, helps with insolvency solutions where women are struggling with unmanageable debt.

We are pleased to be working with the following partners across the UK:

Aberconwy Domestic Abuse Service, North Wales

Advance, London and Southeast England

Belfast & Lisburn Women’s Aid, Northern Ireland

Changing Lives (South Yorkshire), Yorkshire and Humberside

Changing Lives (West Midlands), West Midlands

Christians Against Poverty,  UK-wide

Dundee Women’s Aid,  Scotland

Harbour, North East England

Homemaker SouthWest, South West England

IMPAKT Housing & Support, East of England

Lincolnshire Action Trust, East Midlands

LiveWest, Southwest England

Pankhurst Trust – Manchester Women’s Aid, North West England

Pennine DAP, Yorkshire and Humberside

Safe in Sussex, South East England

SafeNet DAS, North West England

Springfield Support in South Lakeland, North West England

Stori, Wales

The Haven Wolverhampton, West Midlands

Women’s Support Project, Scotland