National Lottery Awards for All offers funding to support what matters to people and communities. The programme is a partnership between the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland, sportscotland and Creative Scotland. It has three funding priorities: - bringing people together and building strong relationships in and across communities - improving the places and spaces that matter to communities - enabling more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the earliest possible stage. If you are applying for a project involving the arts, they will prioritise projects that: engage people from areas of high deprivation; remove financial barriers to access creative activities; address rural isolation and encourage activity in rural areas; engage older people, people in care homes and carers; engage care leavers; support integration of refugees and asylum seekers. If you are applying for a project focused on sport, they will prioritise projects that: engage young people from our most deprived areas; engage girls and young women; engage disabled young people.

The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. Their new strategy focuses on three aims: - Improving Our Natural World - Tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future - Nurturing Creative, Confident Communities. They have identified specific priorities for each theme which can be found in the guidance.

The Trust gives grants to registered charities that work in the UK. They focus on specific priorities every year. Check the website for full details on eligibility. 2021 categories are: - Grant rounds 1 and 2: Homelessness - Grant rounds 3 and 4: Refugees and Asylum Seekers. All grant rounds in 2022 will focus on the arts. Grant Round 3 and Grant Round 4 will focus on projects and initiatives that will help address the under-representation of BAME people in all sections of the arts.

The Trust’s objects are to promote: excellence in education, and in the care of those who are learning disabled or otherwise at risk. It promotes religious tolerance and understanding in an international context; research into the regeneration of the ecosystem of the Scottish Highland with a view to establishing sustainable long term benefits to the environment and rural community; public education and learning by research into social sciences and economic policies and publication of such research. The Trust supports the work of national and local charities whose aims are similar to its own, and donations are made with the intention of building long term relationships.

SEAD provides small grants for individuals or groups for positive action, and campaigning. They fund proposals where the grant will have the most impact, for example, helping a new campaign to get started, or funding a specific concrete action for a local community. They are particularly interested in applications that focus campaign activity on the following areas: women’s rights, young people and their global rights, climate justice, inequality, poverty and health justice.

LUSH supports small, grassroots organisations around the world working in environment, animal protection and human rights. They look for organisations that take on issues that others don't, those that push the boundaries and challenge mainstream opinion. They support non-violent direct action groups that play an important part in bringing about social change.

As part of the Quaker tradition, JRCT is committed to the creation of a world that guarantees equal treatment for all people. Funding priorities: Protection and promotion of equality and human rights and their enforcement in the UK, Promoting rights and justice for minorities who face the most severe forms of racism and discrimination, Promotion of rights and justice for refugees and other migrants by identifying and tackling root causes, structures and systems that may deny them their rights, and Responding to the dual harms of Covid-19 and systemic racism.

The key focus areas of the trust are Human Rights and Prison Reform. The current Human Rights focus areas are Torture & Abuse, Detention and Human Rights Protection. The focus areas for Prison Reform are Prison Education and Skills Training (Employment focused education and skills work and Innovative and creative life skills work); and Prison Reform (Prisoners at Risk and Policy & Campaigning)

They want to support people to create a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are responsive and accountable to wider society and aligned with the long-term public interest. Their funding priorities are : Strengthening corporate accountability, Strengthening democratic accountability, Encouraging responsible media, and Responding to the dual harms of Covid-19 and systemic racism.

ABCT supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for vulnerable individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with marginalised and excluded people in society. Their three priority areas are: - Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers - Criminal justice and penal reform - Human rights, particularly access to justice