Scotmid - Community Grant

Small, one-off grants are available for the benefit of local communities around Scotmid stores. Key areas supported are: children/education, health, homelessness/poverty, arts & culture, environment, elderly, and active lifestyles.

Scotmid - Member Choice Awards

The Member Choice Award allows Scotmid members to support community projects with votes earned from in-store purchases.

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.

Scottish Fishermen's Trust

The Scottish Fishermen's Trust is a charity established to enable individuals and organisations to receive funding for projects related to the marine environment, education and safety at sea.

Next deadline: 10 Oct 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.

Scottish Forestry - Forestry Grants

The Forestry Grant Scheme offers financial support for the creation of new woodland and the sustainable management of existing woodland.

Sea-Changers - Main and Small Grants Fund

Sea-Changers gives one off grants to a range of UK-based, marine conservation charities and ‘not for profit’ organisations who are carrying out marine conservation related activities.

Next deadline: 30 Sep 2025

Shetland Community Benefit Fund - Viking Community Fund - Reactive and Proactive Strategic Funds

Funding for community-focussed activities which sustain and develop Shetland’s communities and clearly focus on the priorities identified in SCBF's business plan.

Next deadline: 31 Oct 2025

Shetland Islands Council - Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) Programme

Supporting activities that will contribute positively to local people and local priorities and helping rural communities to thrive through community-led initiatives.

Next deadline: 28 Nov 2025

Soirbheas - Express (Tier 1) Grants

Soirbheas provide grants funded by wind farm community benefit. Express grants are small awards for projects which benefit residents in the Glen Urquhart or Strathglass Community Council areas.