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Hugh Fraser Foundation
Makes donations to registered charities which are active in such sectors as the arts and culture, medical & health, the environment and education, care and support of the young and elderly, people with disabilities and the under-privileged.
Next deadline: 1 Aug 2025
The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Young Start
Young Start is a grants programme that distributes money from dormant bank accounts. They will support a wide range of projects for up to three years that will make children and young people aged 8 to 24 confident, healthy, connected or enterprising.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - Social Investment
The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. They also offer social investment.
ScottishPower Foundation - Annual Grants Programme
UK-wide funding with priorities of education, training and research; Biodiversity and climate change; Art and culture; and Social initiatives.
Next deadline: 18 Jul 2025
A E B Charitable Trust
The AEB Charitable Trust make grants in a wide range of areas including wildlife, health, and the elderly. The Trust favours organisations in the Lothians and Borders areas.
Next deadline: 30 Nov 2025
A M Garnett Charitable Trust
The Trust fund exists primarily to assist bodies helping medicine, the environment and education.
AMW Charitable Trust
The trust objects are widely drawn and include: religion, education, culture, social and physical wellbeing, poverty, and physical and mental disabilities. Priority is given to applications from the West of Scotland but also funds national organisations.
Aberdeen City Council - Youth Activities Small Grants Fund
Grants to support children and young people to help them develop and to take part in activities that might not otherwise be available for them, offering them opportunities to contribute to their own communities and to the life of the city.
Aberdeenshire Council - Kincardineshire Educational Trust
The Trust awards grants to individuals, schools and organisations to support educational projects in the Kincardine and Mearns area.
Next deadline: 31 Dec 2025
Aberdeenshire Rural Communities Challenge Fund
Funding is available for community groups, charities, public sector organisations and cooperatives throughout Aberdeenshire (excluding the Cairngorms area) and can fund specific activities aimed at benefitting rural communities in the region.
Next deadline: 17 Aug 2025