Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - Social Investment

The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. They also offer social investment.

AABIE Charitable Initiative

AABIE is the platform which facilitates all at AAB Group to invest in the communities in which they operate by seeking partnerships with charities and inviting applications for donations, grants and volunteer time.

Next deadline: 30 Sep 2025

Ashworth Charitable Trust

The Ashworth Charitable Trust is a small grant-making charity. It was created primarily to support humanitarian causes operating locally, nationally and internationally. For the most part, the Trust looks to fund projects and not core funding.

Aviva - Community Fund

The Aviva Community Fund supports projects that boost the resilience of communities in the face of uncertainty and is investing in two key areas: climate action and financial wellbeing.

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.

Big Issue Invest

Provides social investment and loan finance to social enterprises, social ventures and third sector organisations in Scotland.

Cairngorms National Park Authority - Outdoor Learning Travel Grant

This fund is aimed at supporting schools and voluntary and community groups making educational visits to the Cairngorms National Park, particularly those from deprived areas, those who have not visited the Park before and those who experience disadvantage

Clothworkers' Foundation - Open Grants Programme

Gives one-off capital grants to UK charities working in a range of areas including substance misuse and addiction; disabilities and mental health; racial inequalities; young&older people facing disadvantage; LGBTQ+ people; prison; homelessness; abuse, etc

Consortium - LGBT+ Fund: Collective Nurture Fund

The aim of this fund is for organisations supporting LGBT+ global majority communities to be well-resourced, sustainable, and equipped to strengthen connections, build resilience, and meet the needs of those who may feel marginalised within the wider LGBT

Next deadline: 3 Sep 2025

Creative Scotland - National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations

Supports organisations who seek funding to undertake creative activity such as a specific project or production, a programme of creative work, or a period of research and development.