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finding funding
Key steps to think about if you’re looking to bring in income through grants or other fundraising methods.
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The Pilgrim Trust - Preservation and Conservation Grants
Aims to preserve the fabric of historically important buildings and to conserve significant collections and artefacts.
Cruden Foundation
Support charitable projects and activities in Scotland or those which benefit people who live here. There is a strong focus on community welfare, medical support and research, the arts, education and conservation.
The John Ellerman Foundation
The Foundation aims to advance the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world by focusing on the arts, environment and social action. Grants are made in three categories: Arts, Environment and Social Action.
The Strathmartine Trust
The Strathmartine Trust offers grants with the primary object of supporting research and education in Scottish History. The Trustees seek applications for grants to assist with the completion of existing projects and to aid publication.
Next deadline: 13 May 2024
Mainhouse Charitable Trust
The objective of the trust is to support general charitable activities including health, education, social needs, animal welfare and the relief of poverty.
The Association for Industrial Archaeology - Restoration Grants
Grants are provided for the restoration of historically, technically, architecturally, and/or archaeologically important industrial buildings, structures, machinery, vehicles and vessels within the UK.
Next deadline: 31 Mar 2025
Soirbheas - Tier 2 and 3 Grants
Soirbheas provide grants mostly funded by the Corrimony windfarm. The beneficiaries of projects must be resident in the Glen Urquhart or Strathglass Community Council areas.
The Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark Charitable Trust
The trust makes grants across a range of areas. In the past grants have been made to religious organisations, in particular Quaker, charities connected with Somerset and education charities.
Clackmannanshire and Stirling Environment Trust
Will consider applications across all types of projects included in the SLCF Objects including: land reclamation, community recycling, public amenities and parks, biodiversity and historic buildings.
The Leche Trust
The Trust offers grants in two areas: performing arts and conservation. They prefer to give grants to smaller projects, or specific elements of projects, where their contribution can have a greater impact.
Opened: 25 Mar 2024
Next deadline: 3 May 2024