Guide to
finding funding
Key steps to think about if you’re looking to bring in income through grants or other fundraising methods.
Search results
The National Lottery Community Fund - National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
Awards For All supports projects that aim to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. Priorities are: bringing communities together, improving places that matter to communities, and enabling people to fulfil their potential.
The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland) - Community Led Activity
This funding aims to support communities to improve the places in which they live and the wellbeing of those most in need. Projects should be people-led, connected, and strengths-based.
The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Improving Lives
Improving Lives aims to support activity that helps people overcome difficulties and become more resilient.
Holywood Trust
The Trust supports opportunities for young people in Dumfries and Galloway, primarily aged 15-25. The focus is on helping young people move forward in their lives, whether by grants to organisations or to individual young people.
Next deadline: 8 Jul 2024
The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Young Start
Young Start is a grants programme that distributes money from dormant bank accounts. They will support a wide range of projects for up to three years that will make children and young people aged 8 to 24 confident, healthy, connected or enterprising.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence.
Renewable South Lanarkshire Renewable Energy Fund Micro Grants
Awards micro grants to support local constituted and non-constituted groups for activity which is community focused
Scottish Borders Council - Neighbourhood Support Fund
Supports voluntary and community groups that are active within their communities and who are planning community based projects. The Fund operates in five Area Partnerships; Berwickshire, Cheviot, Eildon, Teviot and Liddesdale and Tweeddale.
Alpkit Foundation
The Alpkit Foundation make small awards to people, groups and schools that work to remove the barriers in getting outdoors and experience wild places.
The Hedley Foundation
The Trust considers applications relating to young people, their education, recreation, support, training, health and welfare. It also funds disabled people and the terminally ill for the provision of specialist equipment and support for carers.
Next deadline: 5 Jun 2024