City of Edinburgh Council - Community Grants Fund

The Community Grants Fund (CGF) is a small grants scheme provided by the Council. Small grants can be awarded to constituted groups for local community activity.

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.

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.

Dulverton Trust

The Trust currently offers funding across five categories: Youth Opportunities, General Welfare, Conservation, Heritage, Kenya and Uganda, International Stability and Reconstruction.

East Lothian Council - Community Intervention Fund

The Community Intervention Fund is a capital grant scheme that aims to support community groups/organisations throughout East Lothian with a grant towards the cost of a capital project.

Next deadline: 30 Nov 2025

Edinburgh Children Holidays Fund

Charities and other organisations can apply for funding to provide holidays for disadvantaged children and their families.

Empower Angus

The Empower Angus fund is open to community projects in Angus working on a wide range of areas, from mental health and wellbeing to climate and nature.

Family Fund - BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. It aims to provide grant items that meet a child or young person’s most basic needs or are critical to their wellbeing.

Firstport - Social Innovation Challenge

The Social Innovation Challenge is a programme that funds and supports innovators to kick-start solutions that tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. The current theme is aligned with four key priorities.

Forces in Mind Trust

FiMT was established to improve the transition of Service personnel, and their families, from military into civilian life, focusing on those most vulnerable to failure.