Government is giving $40,000 to help erect a statue of a local women’s suffrage leader.

The Minister Responsible for Women and Gender Equality, Pam Parsons, today announced that government would be giving the money to PerSIStence Theatre’s “#Raise Her Up” campaign.

The campaign aims to erect a statue of Armine Nutting Gosling, who led the island-wide Women’s Franchise League, fighting for a woman’s right to vote for decades during the early 1900s.

It will be the first statue of a named woman in the capital city, and only the fourth in the province.

The statue is set to be erected in Bannerman Park in 2025, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in 1925.