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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 Led
This funding aims to support communities to improve the places in which they live and the wellbeing of those most in need. Projects should be people-led, connected, and strengths-based.
Next deadline: 21 Aug 2024
The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Improving Lives
Improving Lives aims to support activity that helps people overcome difficulties and become more resilient.
Next deadline: 21 Aug 2024
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.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence.
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.
Barclays Community Football Fund
The programme offers community groups the opportunity to access a grant to be spent on whatever they need to support the delivery of football activities to young people from diverse backgrounds.
Clothworkers' Foundation - Open Grants Programme
Gives one-off capital grants to UK charities working in a range of areas including Alcohol and substance misuse, Disabilities, Disadvantaged young people, Elderly people, Homelessness, Disadvantaged minority communities, Prisoners and ex-offenders.
Corra Foundation - Independent Human Rights Fund for Scotland
The Independent Human Rights Fund for Scotland is for organisations taking action to realise and defend rights, and tackling immediate rights issues affecting people’s daily lives.
Opened: 4 Jun 2024
Next deadline: 4 Sep 2024
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.