Guide to
finding funding
Key steps to think about if you’re looking to bring in income through grants or other fundraising methods.
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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) - Improving Lives
Improving Lives aims to support activity that helps people overcome difficulties and become more resilient.
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.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. Their new strategy focuses on three aims: Improving Our Natural World; Tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future; and Nurturing Creative, Confident Communities.
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.
South Lanarkshire Council - Social Enterprise Grant
Social enterprises based in the South Lanarkshire area can apply for small amounts of funding to start-up and/or grow trading activity that will deliver social and environmental impact.
The Steel Charitable Trust
The trustees support five categories - Arts & Heritage; Education; Environment; Health; Social or Economic Disadvantage.
Opened: 16 Jan 2024
Next deadline: 15 Jul 2024
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Migration Fund
The Migration Fund supports organisations working towards a world in which everyone is free to move, and no one is forced to move. It provides long term grants to organisations of any size working in the UK.
Research and Knowledge Exchange Fund
The fund aims to explore the issues, challenges and opportunities surrounding entrepreneurial activities and small firm performance and to encourage and promote cutting-edge research which is relevant to both the development of policy and practice.
Next deadline: 23 May 2024