Smallwood Trust Impact Summary 2017

2017 was the first operational year of the Smallwood Trust's new Strategic Plan, the aims of which are to:

• Award increased funding across our programmes to help more women out of poverty;
• Provide a range of targeted financial support that helps women to improve their economic circumstances; and
• Build our monitoring and evaluation systems to enable the Trust to understand what works in improving financial resilience for women.

Highlights from 2017 include:

• Increasing the number of beneficiaries through funded work and partnerships from 452 in 2016 to 1,410 in 2017;
• Providing financial assistance directly to 419 women to help them overcome challenges and barriers such as ill-health, domestic abuse, bereavement, unemployment and poorly paid self-employment;
• Funding to 12 project partners who are providing frontline services including skills, education and access to employment opportunities; and
• Funding to two policy partners to help amplify issues such as making devolution work for women and how to tackle gendered poverty.

Read Smallwood Trust - Impact Summary 2017. Source: The Smallwood Trust