Frontline services to receive funding to prevent violence against women and girls

Frontline services and communities across the country will receive targeted funding to transform how women and girls are protected from violence and abuse.

 Promising local projects supporting women and girls by preventing violence and abuse will be scaled up through a £10 million Prevention Accelerator fund. The fund, led by UK Research and Innovation, will provide the support and funding needed for local projects to scale up and grow nationally.

 This will build UK-wide capability by funding and supporting promising grassroots initiatives, partnering with government, philanthropists, and social impact investors to scale high-potential approaches into new communities. 

First Secretary of State Louise Haigh said:

Violence against women and girls is a stain on our society and this government is committed to halving it within a decade.

We are backing local projects to deliver real change, ensuring new ideas are properly funded and tested to tackle abuse at its root.

This is how we put safety back in the hands of local communities, ensuring every woman and girl can live free from fear in their homes, in public spaces and online.

A further £4 million has been awarded through the Evaluation Accelerator Fund to build evidence on what stops violence and abuse happening in the first place, so that every community nationwide benefits from proven support systems faster.

 This funding has been awarded for research and evaluation across a range of services, including schools intervening in teenage relationship harms, police forces strengthening responses to technology enabled harms, and communities preventing violence in public spaces. Other examples include: