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) - Scottish Land Fund
The fund will help communities take ownership of the land and buildings that matter to them, as well as practical support to develop their aspirations into viable projects.
sportscotland - Sport Facilities Fund
The fund supports capital projects that create or improve places that people take part in sport and physical activity. They focus on participation, progression, equality & inclusion, people development, collaboration and impact.
Next deadline: 1 Sep 2024
The Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation
Supports projects with clear benefit to communities in Moray and the Highlands and Islands. They will fund a huge variety of capital projects.
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.
The Mackintosh Foundation
The Foundation supports wide range of charitable activities. The main areas are Theatre and the Performing arts and Children / Education. They also support medical causes, community projects, homelessness and the environment.
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.