Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Forfar Roof Truss Co
Each month, money is donated to local charities and worthy causes. The main focus is that the causes are local, and of the kind that tend to be overlooked generally.
Scottish Communities Finance - Social Enterprise Bridging Loan
The Social Enterprise Loan Fund is a small fund that is capitalised by the investment of people and organisations within the Scottish Third Sector.
Firstport - Social Innovation Challenge
The Social Innovation Challenge is a programme that funds and supports innovators to kick-start solutions that tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. The 2024 theme is focused on breaking barriers to better health and wellbeing.
Next deadline: 28 Aug 2025
The Finnis Scott Foundation
The Trustees can make grants for any charitable purpose, but their present policy is to focus grant-making in the areas of horticulture and plant sciences, as well as fine art and art history.
Next deadline: 18 Jun 2025
National Churches Trust - Cherish Grants
The Cherish project provides grants to churches, chapels or meeting houses for church maintenance, urgent repair work or project development. They aim to see churches open and in regular use, available to all.
Next deadline: 12 Aug 2025
Scottish Forestry - Forestry Grant Scheme - Forestry Co-operation
This option aims to encourage landscape-scale collaborative projects between two or more landowners by providing support for project facilitation and coordination.
Kintore Charitable Trust
The Trustees favour community causes in the counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire. They also consider causes involving young people, the relief of poverty or the environment in those counties.
Next deadline: 15 May 2026
Better Community Business Network - Grant Initiative
small third-sector grant awards to empower charities and local community projects
Next deadline: 8 Jun 2025
SSE - Clyde South Lanarkshire Development Fund
The Fund supports capital projects which will result in a range of local benefits for local people including employment and/or education opportunities and support the local economic prosperity of South Lanarkshire.
Ventient Energy Gordonstown Auchterless, Inverkeithny and Fisherford Fund
Supports activity which will sustain and develop the life of the community and ensure that the area is an attractive and vibrant place to live, work and visit in the Auchterless, Inverkeithny & Fisherford Community Council areas.