One place to find support for women across Scotland: courses, funding, advice, drop-ins, mentoring and more. Tell us what you need in your own words and we show you a few next steps worth taking, rather than a directory to search through yourself.

Not to search, read or apply for anything. The one thing that needs an account is saving: press Save and you are asked to sign in, so your list is still there next time and we can warn you before something closes. Nothing else on the platform asks you for anything.

No. The platform is free to use. Some of the things listed on it have a cost, and every listing says which, free, free to apply, or there is a cost, before you click through.

Your answers are used to rank your results and nothing else. They are not sold, not passed to the organisations you are shown, and not used to build a profile of you. We record that a listing was viewed or clicked, as a count and a date, with nothing attached that could say it was you.

Three things you tell us: what you need in your own words, roughly where you are, and anything about your situation you choose to share. Those are weighed against what each listing is for, who it is open to, where it runs and how you can reach it. Every result says why it matched.

No. There is no paid placement and no advertising anywhere on the platform. Nothing about the order of your results can be bought.

Every organisation is checked against a public register, the Scottish Charity Register or Companies House, or, where it has no registration, against its funder, before it can post anything. Each listing also carries the date it was last confirmed, so you can see how current it is.

You will be offered a wider search rather than an empty page, and you can change any of your three answers. If there is still nothing, tell us, searches that find nothing are recorded without anything identifying you, and they are how we work out what is missing.

Yes, with an account. Press Save on anything and you are asked to sign in with a one-time code; what you pressed Save on is kept while you do and is waiting when you get back. We remind you about seven days before a closing date, and you can turn that off at any time.

Not from us. We do not contact anyone on your behalf, we do not tell an organisation you looked at it, and nothing you do here appears anywhere someone else can see. Bear in mind that your own browser keeps a history, as it does on any site.

Tell us. There is a report link on every listing page. We check it, and if it is wrong the organisation is asked to fix it; if a woman would waste an afternoon on it in the meantime, we take it down until it is sorted.

The listing closes but does not disappear. You can still reach it from a saved list or a link, so a page you were sent does not turn into nothing, and it stops competing with things that are still open.

Yes. Every organisation here works in Scotland, and the places we match on are Scottish towns and council areas. Some listings are online and open to anyone, and those say so.

Parts of it. The language control at the top of the page offers Gaelic, Scots, Polish, Ukrainian, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi and simplified Chinese. What organisations write about themselves stays in the language they wrote it in, we do not machine-translate anybody's words.

This platform is for finding support, not for emergencies, and nobody here is monitoring it. If you are in immediate danger, call 999. Scotland's Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline is free on 0800 027 1234, day or night.

Any organisation working with women in Scotland: charities, social enterprises, public bodies, colleges, businesses and constituted community groups. You do not have to be women-only, but what you list has to be something a woman can act on.

No. Listing is free and there is no paid placement to buy, so nothing you pay could change where you appear in anybody's results.

Against a public register where you have one, a charity number or a company number, and against your funder where you do not. It usually takes about two working days from the point you finish signing up. You will get an email either way, and if we need one more thing we will say exactly what.

Signing up is three short steps: who you are, your Access Zones, and a contact for verification. After that there is a fuller profile, your mission, who you work with, what you offer, how far you reach and who you cannot help. That profile is what decides which women we send you, so it is worth the twenty minutes.

One thing a woman can act on: a course, a grant, a drop-in, an event, a mentoring place, a one-to-one. Post them separately rather than bundling them, so each can be matched to the women it actually suits.

A ranker, from what she typed and what you wrote. It weighs the situations you tagged, her own words against yours, and whether you are within reach of her. Every factor is in one file and none of it can be bought. She is also told why your listing matched her.

Yes, at any time, and it stays live while you do. The listing shows the date it was last updated, so a woman can see it is current.

The listing closes on its own. Nobody asks you to confirm, because you already told us the date. It stays reachable so anyone who saved it is not left with a dead link, and it stops competing with things still open. To extend it, edit the date.

Yes. Invite them by email from your organisation page once you are verified. They get their own sign-in and inherit your verified status, so there is nothing to prove again.

An admin can take a listing off the woman-facing side if something on it would waste her time, a dead link, a date that has passed, eligibility that does not match what is actually run. Nothing is deleted, you keep everything you wrote, and you are told the reason by email and on your dashboard. Fix it and tell us, and it goes back up.

Women reached is the number who clicked through to you. Profile visits is the number who read your organisation page. Both can be shown for this week, this month or all time, and they are counts with dates attached, never anything about who anybody was.

Yes. Some organisations will never sign up themselves, so HWS can enter one and post on its behalf. If that is yours and you would rather manage it, ask us and we will hand it over.

As often as you genuinely have something. You tell us your expected rhythm on your profile, most weeks, monthly, when funding allows, and we use it to decide how often to check in, rather than nagging everybody on the same clock.