Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - Social Investment

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

A B Charitable Trust

ABCT supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for vulnerable individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with marginalised and excluded people in society.

Next deadline: 25 Jul 2025

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

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.

Cervus Trust

The Cervus Trust supports charitable activities in Fife covering food poverty, mental health, the arts, education, and disadvantaged families and children.

Charles Hayward Foundation - Social & Criminal Justice - Main Grants

Funds activities which prevent people entering the criminal justice system and support those already in the system to move on and rebuild their lives.

Next deadline: 19 Sep 2025

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.

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.

Dulverton Trust

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