Clothworkers' Foundation - Open Grants Programme

The Open Grants Programme funds capital costs that support the infrastructure needs of small- and medium-sized charitable organisations working with disadvantaged and marginalised people and communities.

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: 23 Oct 2026

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 2026

Aviva Foundation - Communities Fund

This fund supports projects that focus on either climate action and/or financial wellbeing.

Aviva Foundation - Financial Futures Fund

The Financial Futures Fund works in partnership with organisations across the UK to improve financial resilience, and to fund long-term solutions that help people feel more secure, confident, and in control of their financial future.

Next deadline: 7 Oct 2026

Bank of Scotland Foundation - Energise

Energise is a grants programme enabling grassroots charities to grow and support more vulnerable people.

Due to open: 28 Sep 2026

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.

Brownlie Charitable Trust

The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. They fund mostly under the headings of adult and child welfare and medical research but also support armed services welfare, humanitarian aid and education.