Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
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.
Hazel's Footprints Trust
Third Aim Grants are to improve the quality and reach of education across the developing world and provide financial assistance to educational institutions that are looking to expand.
Barbara Ward Children's Foundation
The Foundation is a small grant-making body that helps the smaller non-religious charities to serve severely disadvantaged children anywhere in the world where grants are likely to make a real difference.
John Kirkhope Young Endowment Fund
Objectives are: research for medicine and surgery in Edinburgh; the physical wellbeing of the youth in Edinburgh; research in Chemistry as affecting industry in the UK; charities whose objective is the restoration of the sick to health.
Scottish Sea Farms - Heart of the Community Trust
Provides grants to community projects that deliver lasting change in Shetland, Orkney, Highland and Argyll.
Misses Barrie Charitable Trust
Gives to a wide range of charitable causes. Organisations that support young people, music, drama, physical health, mental health, the elderly, disabled people and rescue have been funded in the past.
Dun Law Windfarm Extension Community Benefit Trust
The Trust can grant funding to any project which will improve the communities and environments within the area of the participating communities: Fala, Heriot, Humbie, and Oxton & Channelkirk.
John M Archer Charitable Trust
The trust has general charitable purposes and supports local, national and international organisations. Most of their funding went to medical/health charities.
Amos Christian Trust
The AMOS Christian Trust support projects by offering grants to organisations/groups for the advancement of the Christian Religion and the spreading of the gospel.
Next deadline: 1 Jun 2026
The Erskine Cunningham Hill Trust
Grants are restricted to Scottish charities carrying out work with the elderly, young people, ex-service personnel and seafarers. Priority is given to charities largely administered by voluntary or honorary officials.