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.

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.

The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Young Start

Young Start is a grants programme that distributes money from dormant bank accounts. They will support a wide range of projects for up to three years that will make children and young people aged 8 to 24 confident, healthy, connected or enterprising.

A E B Charitable Trust

The AEB Charitable Trust make grants in a wide range of areas including wildlife, health, and the elderly. The Trust favours organisations in the Lothians and Borders areas.

Baring Foundation - Strengthening Civil Society Programme

Grants are available for legal action addressing racial injustice - with a focus on police in schools, repression of protest and challenging legislation which disproportionately criminalises racialised people.

Next deadline: 30 May 2025

Business Energy Scotland - SME Loan Fund

Funded by the Scottish Government, this scheme aims to support charities and not-for-profit organisations that are looking to reduce costs through improved energy, material resource and water efficiency.

CAF - Venturesome Impact Fund

CAF provides social investment loans which are unsecured. Investments are tailored to the needs of the organisations they finance and can be used for working capital, delivering new services or building organisational resilience.

Carnegie Dunfermline Trust

Grants are given for projects and activities with social, community, educational, cultural, sporting and recreational purposes. The Trust looks for innovative and far reaching proposals, together with those that particularly impact on young people.

Community Enterprise - Accelerate

Accelerate is a programme of free business and organisational support targeted at third sector organisations and community groups who are not trading.