The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Improving Lives

Improving Lives aims to support activity that helps people overcome difficulties and become more resilient.

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.

Tay Charitable Trust

The Trust gives to a wide variety of causes, mostly in Scotland, including health, education, arts and the environment.

Harbinson Charitable Trust

The Trust funds organisations working overseas in education, health and agriculture, and also organisations concerned with conservation and wildlife matters, and occasionally the arts.

Buccleuch Charitable Foundation

The Foundation supports a wide range of organisations including supporting arts, sport, heritage, health, welfare and youth work.

Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust

Funding is given under the main headings of health, education, youth work, religion and relief of poverty.

The Headley Trust

Supports proposals which match conditions under the following criteria: Arts and Heritage; Overseas; Education; Health and Social Welfare.

National Churches Trust - Small Grants

The programme offers small grants towards urgent maintenance works and small repairs identified as high priority to listed and unlisted Christian churches, chapels and meeting houses.

Next deadline: 30 Apr 2024

National Churches Trust - Large Grants

The Large Grant Programme can award grants towards major urgent structural repair projects, or the introduction of kitchens and accessible toilets.

Next deadline: 2 Jul 2024

Ferguson Bequest Fund

The principle activities of the fund are the maintenance and repair of church buildings throughout Scotland with priority to churches in the west and south west of Scotland. Support is also given for new initiatives and projects in Christian Mission.