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.

The Paristamen Charity - Responsive Grants

Paristamen Responsive Grants are intended to make a contribution to the running costs of a wide range of small/medium charities operating in Scotland.

Next deadline: 1 Jun 2023

Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

The Trust gives grants to registered charities that work in the UK. They focus on specific priorities every year. Grant rounds 1 and 2 in 2023 will focus on the rehabilitation of prisoners, ex-prisoners and those at risk of offending.

Opened: 1 Feb 2023
Next deadline: 28 Feb 2023

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: 30 Apr 2023

Scottish Education And Action For Development - SEAD Fund

SEAD provides small grants for individuals or groups for positive action, and campaigning. Focus areas are: women’s rights, young people and their global rights, climate justice, inequality, poverty and health justice.

Lush - Charity Pot Funding

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.

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.

Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation

Supports projects that seek to influence values and attitudes, promote equity and social justice, and develop radical alternatives to current economic and social structures.

Next deadline: 24 Feb 2023

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - Sustainable Future

The overall focus is on developing and promoting sustainable, low-carbon alternatives to the current consumerist and growth-based paradigm.

Next deadline: 28 Mar 2023