Guide to finding funding
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Scotland's Heat Network Fund
Scotland’s Heat Network Fund (SHNF) offers grants to businesses and organisation to install district and communal heat systems, with a focus on low emission systems
Scotmid - Community Grant
Small, one-off grants are available for the benefit of local communities around Scotmid stores. Key areas supported are: children/education, health, homelessness/poverty, arts & culture, environment, elderly, and active lifestyles.
Scottish Community Alliance - Community Learning Exchange Fund
The Community Learning Exchange offers communities the opportunity to learn through the exchange of ideas and the sharing of common solutions. They can support virtual or face to face activity.
Scottish Education And Action For Development - SEAD Fund
SEAD provides small grants for individuals or groups for positive action, and campaigning. Focus areas are: women’s rights, young people and their global rights, climate justice, inequality, poverty and health justice.
Scottish Forestry - Community Fund
The Community Fund supports groups and organisations that encourage people to use woods more.
Scottish Forestry - Forestry Grant Scheme - Forest Infrastructure
Provides support for new access infrastructure that will bring small scale, undermanaged woodlands or inaccessible woodlands back into active management.
Scottish Forestry - Forestry Grant Scheme - Forestry Co-operation
This option aims to encourage landscape-scale collaborative projects between two or more landowners by providing support for project facilitation and coordination.
Scottish Forestry - Forestry Grant Scheme - Harvesting and Processing
Funding is intended to help to bring woodlands into management; promote the economic and sustainable production of timber and timber products; add value and jobs to local economies; and provide support to facilitate and enable diversification.
Next deadline: 31 Jan 2026
Scottish Forestry - Forestry Grants
The Forestry Grant Scheme offers financial support for the creation of new woodland and the sustainable management of existing woodland.
Scottish Mining Welfare Trust
To improve the conditions of life of persons who are or have been employed in Scotland in the mining industry