Guide to finding funding
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Angus Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
Aims to support community-based initiatives that promote and develop good mental health and wellbeing and/or mitigate the impact of distress and mental ill health within the adult population.
Next deadline: 5 Jan 2026
Argyll and Bute Whole Family Approach Grant Scheme
Funding for communities to support reducing harm caused by alcohol and drugs and improving life choices.
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.
Cash4Clubs
Grants of £2,000 (€2,000 in Ireland) are available this autumn for community organisations working with adults from under-represented communities, delivering sport or physical activity for social purpose.
Next deadline: 8 Dec 2025
Clothworkers' Foundation - Open Grants Programme
Gives one-off capital grants to UK charities working in a range of areas including substance misuse and addiction; disabilities and mental health; racial inequalities; young&older people facing disadvantage; LGBTQ+ people; prison; homelessness; abuse, etc
Dundee City Council - Community Safety Award Programme
Gives groups and organisations promoting community safety activities consistent with the Dundee Community Safety Partnership Strategy and Action Plan access to grant aid to deliver locally based responses to identified community safety issues.
East Ayrshire Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
The Fife Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Supports and Services has funding available to support projects working with young people aged 5-24 (up to 26 if care experienced) and their parents or carers.
Next deadline: 26 Jan 2026
Elton John AIDS Foundation - RADIAN 2.0
Funds frontline programmes that help to alleviate the pain - whether physical, emotional or financial - of those living with, affected by or at risk of HIV/AIDS.
Fife Council - Local Community Planning
Support projects which meet some of the priorities of your local area’s community plan Local Community Plans. Priorities include improvements to community facilities, employment initiatives, and supporting vulnerable groups.