Quaker Housing Trust

Supports charitable housing projects giving safe, affordable, and often supported, homes to people of all ages and meeting a wide variety of housing needs. They give grants and interest-free loans.

Next deadline: 12 Jun 2024

NESTA - Arts & Culture Impact Fund

The Arts & Culture Impact Fund is a £20 million impact investment fund for the UK's arts, culture and heritage social enterprises. The fund offers loans repayable until March 2032.

Co-operative & Community Finance Limited

Makes loans to employee or community owned social enterprises, including co-operatives, community businesses, development trusts and businesses developed from the charitable and voluntary sector.

The Architectural Heritage Fund - Heritage Impact Fund

The Heritage Impact Fund offers tailored, flexible loans to charities, social enterprises and community businesses that want to acquire, reuse or redevelop historic or architecturally important buildings in the UK.

CAF - Venturesome

CAF provides social investment loans which are unsecured. Investments are tailored to the needs of the organisations they finance and can be used for working capital, delivering new services or building organisational resilience.

Western Isles Development Trust - Main Fund

The purpose of the trust is to support the regeneration and development of the Outer Hebrides through disbursement of Community Benefit secured from the local deployment of Renewable Energy installations.

Social Investment Scotland - Investment

Provide loan funding for assisting with capital expenditure, revenue funding, marketing, business development or working capital.

Big Issue Invest

Provides social investment and loan finance to social enterprises, social ventures and third sector organisations in Scotland.

Foundation Scotland - Social Investment Fund

The Social Investment Fund offers blended grant and loan investment to social enterprises, community organisations and charities. Investment can be used for capital expenditure, asset acquisition and business growth.

Business Loans Scotland

Provides loan funding to new and growing small & medium sized businesses across Scotland.