Frontline services and community projects across the UK were set to receive £14 million in targeted funding to prevent violence and abuse against women and girls, according to a government announcement on 21 September 2026. The £10 million Prevention Accelerator fund, led by UK Research and Innovation, was intended to help promising local projects scale up and grow nationally through partnerships with government, philanthropists and social impact investors.

A further £4 million was awarded through the Evaluation Accelerator Fund to build evidence on preventing violence and abuse, covering areas such as schools intervening in teenage relationship harms, police responses to technology-enabled harms, and community work in public spaces. First Secretary of State Louise Haigh said the government was committed to halving violence against women and girls within a decade and described the funding as backing local projects to deliver change. The release did not name individual recipient projects or set out a timetable for scaling up.