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.

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Major Grants

Funds organisations working directly with families in need. Organisations should have a focus on Family Support including early intervention, families coping with addiction, and prisoners' families.

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.

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.

ACHA - Community Action Fund

Argyll Community Housing Association has a small fund from which the Association can make donations to registered charitable organisations for worthwhile causes which have some housing connection or follow the Associations mission statement.

AMW Charitable Trust

The trust objects are widely drawn and include: religion, education, culture, social and physical wellbeing, poverty, and physical and mental disabilities. Priority is given to applications from the West of Scotland but also funds national organisations.

Aberdeenshire Charities Trust

Aberdeenshire Charities Trust administers charitable funds in Aberdeenshire. It covers a range of areas including the relief of poverty, arts, heritage and culture, and the environment.