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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.
The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland) - Community Action
This funding is for communities in Scotland: people who share an identity, interest or experience, or people living in the same place.
The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland) - Fairer Life Chances
For projects that support children, young people and families; or that help people to be healthier and have better access to support. Projects should support people experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination.
The Robertson Trust - Large Grants
Large Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes: Financial security, education pathways, work pathways and relationships.
Holywood Trust
The Trust supports opportunities for young people in Dumfries and Galloway, primarily aged 15-25. The focus is on helping young people move forward in their lives, whether by grants to organisations or to individual young people.
sportscotland - Sport Facilities Fund
The fund supports capital projects that create or improve places that people take part in sport and physical activity. They focus on participation, progression, equality & inclusion, people development, collaboration and impact.
Next deadline: 1 Apr 2025
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 Robertson Trust - Small Grants
Small Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and trauma under one or more of the following themes: Financial Security, Education Pathways, Work Pathways
The Robertson Trust - Wee Grants
The purpose of Wee Grants is to fund initiatives at a local level. Wee Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma in local communities.
Opened: 1 Oct 2024
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Small Grants
Trusthouse gives grants for running costs to charities and not-for-profit organisations under the overarching themes are Rural Issues and Urban Deprivation. Their preference is for front line organisations working directly with people in need.