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.

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

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.

Firstport - Social Entrepreneurs - Boost It

Boost It helps social entrepreneurs in Scotland to strengthen their businesses so they can successfully increase trading. It targets those social enterprises who need to increase their levels of trading, rather than those looking to scale up.

Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust - Funding and Bagpipe Loans

The Trust aims to advance education the arts, heritage, culture and community development by encouraging young people in Scotland to take up and play the chanter, pipes and drums, and by supporting the development of school pipe bands.

SIB - Recovery Loan Fund

The Recovery Loan Fund is for UK charities and social enterprises who are improving people’s lives, or the environment they live in. It is designed to support access to finance for UK small business as they look to invest and grow.

Business Energy Scotland - SME Loan Fund

Funded by the Scottish Government, this scheme aims to support charities and not-for-profit organisations that are looking to reduce costs through improved energy, material resource and water efficiency.

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.

Community Shares ICOF Limited

The Community Shares Fund supports community-owned enterprises seeking to raise investment through a community share issue.

S J Noble Trust

The trust gives grants and loans to promote rural regeneration in Argyll and the Islands. Applicants must have a business or intend to start a business that is located in Argyll & the islands.