The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Improving Lives

Improving Lives aims to support activity that helps people overcome difficulties and become more resilient.

Next deadline: 21 Aug 2024

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.

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 Neil Mackenzie Trust

Provides grants to assist young people and adults to carry out skills training in non-competitive outdoor sports in Scotland and adventures and expeditions anywhere in the world

The Netherton Charitable Trust

The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. In previous years they have supported projects under the headings of medical research & support, adult and child welfare.

Next deadline: 31 Aug 2024

The Paristamen Charity - Responsive Grants

Paristamen Responsive Grants are intended to make a contribution to the running costs of a wide range of small/medium charities operating in Scotland.

Next deadline: 1 Jun 2024

The Pear Tree Fund for Music

The Fund supports the projects working to promote classical music, promote benefits of music to health and wellbeing, and increase the appreciation of music amongst children and young people. They also support musicians based in Scotland.

Due to open: 1 Jun 2024

The RJ Larg Family Trust

Grants are given to a wide variety of organisations (generally in Scotland, particularly Tayside) including cancer research and other medical charities, youth organisations, university students' associations, wildlife, and amateur musical groups.

The Rangers Charity Foundation

They make in-kind donations to charities, community groups and other worthwhile causes worth thousands of pounds every year.

The Rayne Foundation

Considers applications in the fields of arts, young people's mental health, carers and older people, and refugees and asylum seekers.