Our Strategic Plan

Our Strategic Plan outlines our mission to finding solutions to the root causes of gendered poverty

We are currently refining the next phase of Smallwood’s strategy in conversation with trustees, grant partners and other stakeholders. As we approach our 140th anniversary, this work builds on the evolution of our grantmaking over the past decade and focuses on connecting immediate support for women in hardship with longer-term work to address the systems that drive gendered poverty.

Strategic Plan Update

The full strategy will be published later this year. In the meantime, you can read more about the emerging direction of travel, including our growing place-based work, partnerships with women-led organisations, and our focus on learning and systems change.

Read the update: https://www.smallwoodtrust.org.uk/news/refining-smallwoods-strategy-learning-and-direction-of-travel/

Our Strategic Plan outlines our mission to finding solutions to the root causes of gendered poverty so that:

  1. UK women are free from poverty and have a sustainable and secure financial future
  2. Future generations of UK women are less likely to live in poverty
  3. UK women can live in a society that equally values their contribution

Smallwood strives to achieve these key objectives:

Supporting partners to develop a gender-lens approach

Funding to pilot and help scale
programmes that reduce gendered poverty

Flexible funding to improve social and economic outcomes for women

Helping build networks and resilient communities

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