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 Robertson Trust - Large Grants

Large Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes: Financial security, education pathways, work pathways and nurturing relationships.

Forte Charitable Foundation - Small Grants

Trusthouse gives grants for running costs to charities and not-for-profit organisations for work which addresses the challenges of local communities. Their preference is for front line organisations working directly with people in need.

The Robertson Trust - Small Grants

Small Grants focuses on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and trauma under one or more of the following themes: Financial Security, Education Pathways, Work Pathways, Nurturing Relationships.

The Robertson Trust - Wee Grants

The purpose of Wee Grants is to fund initiatives at a local level, focusing on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma in local 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.

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.

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

Boots Charitable Trust

The Trust funds charities and voluntary organisations working in the areas of health, lifelong learning, community development and social care.

Due to open: 2 Nov 2026