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 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.

Next deadline: 19 Dec 2025

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.

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

Bairdwatson Charitable Trust

The Bairdwatson Charitable Trust provides grants in Scotland for work relating to training for employment, employment support and vocational skills.