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Thrive is a targeted grants programme developed to support charities providing financial advice, building financial resilience, delivering financial education or simply encouraging good financial health with people living in vulnerable circumstances. This could include providing practical financial support, budgeting assistance, help with debt management, financial education, and personalised advice, to help people navigate financial challenges and build long-term resilience.

Unrestricted funding can be used towards core costs, delivery costs, project costs and/or general running costs enabling charities to use their funding in the way that helps them best and deal with challenges quickly and effectively. In addition, this grants programme is open to charities who currently offer financial resilience related activities but for whom this is not their core purpose. For these charities, unrestricted funding can be used solely on any reasonable costs associated with delivering the focus area of financial resilience e.g. core costs, project costs, delivery costs, salary costs.

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Geographical areas funded: Scotland

Fund type

Type of funding:

Grant

Type of cost:

Capital, Revenue, Core costs

Fund award sizes

Maximum:

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Notes on award amounts:

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Who can apply

To be eligible to apply, charities must:

• have an income of £500k or less
• have a minimum of two year's accounts lodged and checked at OSCR
• put vulnerable people at the heart of everything it does.
• operate in Scotland and benefit people living in Scotland.
• be registered in Scotland with a charity number beginning SC0.
• have records at OSCR (and Companies House if applicable) which are not overdue on the closing date for applications.
• have an OSCR record which states “it carries out activities or services itself” for the types of activity undertaken and should not state “‘it does none of these”.

Maximum annual income:

£500,000

When to apply

Now open. Closes at 12 noon on Wednesday 24 September 2025.

Next deadline: 24 Sep 2025

How to apply

Apply online via the Foundation's website. There is also an eligibility checker available on the website.

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Exclusions

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Activites funded: Financial advice and support

Beneficiaries funded: Economically/socially disadvantaged People in poverty

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