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.

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

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; and Nurturing Creative, Confident Communities.

A B Charitable Trust

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.

Next deadline: 25 Oct 2024

Andy Jackson Fund for Access

The Fund aims to improve and increase access to paddle-sports/canoeing for the waters of Scotland (e.g. canal, open water, marine and river). It provides funding to any project in Scotland that helps paddlers get on the water.

Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

The Trust gives grants to registered charities that work in the UK. They focus on specific priorities every year. The focus area for rounds 3 and 4 in 2024 is Food Poverty.

Next deadline: 30 Sep 2024

Beautiful Trouble - Get Up, Rise Up (GURU) Direct Action Fund

To support activists globally to shift power through strategic nonviolent direct actions to create a more socially and ecologically just, healthy, and equitable world for all.

Carscreugh Renewable Energy Park Ltd (CREPL)

The fund supports a broad range of community activity and development by supporting the charitable activities of community, not-for-profit groups.

Edge Fund

Edge Fund supports small grassroots organisations taking action for a just, equitable and sustainable world. It funds work that challenges abuses of power and aims to bring an end to the systems that cause injustice.

Next deadline: 13 Sep 2024

Foresight Kinegar Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund (Cockburnspath)

The Foresight Kinegar Wind Farm Community Fund (Cockburnspath) supports community projects benefiting those living in Cockburnspath & Cove Community Council area in the Scottish Borders.

Gambling Education & Prevention Small Action Fund

Groups of young people aged 12 – 25 in youth groups across Scotland have can apply for a micro grant to turn their ideas into action and create their own gambling education project.