Dumfries & Galloway Council - Area Committee Grants

Dumfries and Galloway Council can provide financial assistance to the third sector (voluntary and community organisations) who can apply to one or more of four Area Committees: Annandale and Eskdale; Nithsdale; Stewartry; Wigtown.

Scottish Forestry - Community Fund

The Community Fund supports groups and organisations that encourage people to use woods more.

Beautiful Trouble - Get Up, Rise Up (GURU) Direct Action Fund

To support activists globally to shift power through strategic nonviolent direct actions to create a more socially and ecologically just, healthy, and equitable world for all.

Open Technology Fund - Internet Freedom Fund

This fund supports innovative internet freedom projects, including technology development, research, digital security projects, and convenings.

NESTA - Arts & Culture Impact Fund

The Arts & Culture Impact Fund is a £20 million impact investment fund for the UK's arts, culture and heritage social enterprises. The fund offers loans repayable until March 2032.

Midlothian Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund

Funds community initiatives supporting mental health and wellbeing in the local area. Part of a nationwide scheme.

Opened: 19 Sep 2025
Next deadline: 31 Oct 2025

Arran Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund

Funds community initiatives supporting mental health and wellbeing in the local area. Part of a nationwide scheme.

Due to open: 19 Sep 2025

FCC Scottish Action Fund

The FCC Scottish Action Fund offers funding to projects through the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund. The objectives are to fund environmentally-friendly projects which meet a proven community need, offer value for money and are sustainable.

Next deadline: 19 Nov 2025

Consortium - LGBT+ Fund: Collective Nurture Fund

The aim of this fund is for organisations supporting LGBT+ global majority communities to be well-resourced, sustainable, and equipped to strengthen connections, build resilience, and meet the needs of those who may feel marginalised within the wider LGBT

Environmental Key Fund - Blacklaw Windfarm Community Benefit Fund

The Blacklaw Windfarm Community Benefit Fund is open to communities living closest to the windfarm development through a community and environmental grants scheme.

Next deadline: 3 Dec 2025