Firstport - Step Up loans

Step Up offers 0% interest loans from £5K to £30K to support social enterprises based in Scotland that require financial support to strengthen and sustain trading.

Souter Charitable Trust

Supports projects for the relief of human suffering in the UK and overseas with a particular interest in projects that also promote spiritual welfare.

A Sinclair Henderson Trust

The Trust will gives grants towards religion; medicine; education; youth; and historic building maintenance; alleviation of poverty. The Trust has a preference for the Dundee and Tayside areas of Scotland.

HDH Wills - Small and Monthly Grants

Each month the committee makes donations to small general charities and to charities focused on the conservation or wildlife and the environment.

Kintore Charitable Trust

The Trustees favour community causes in the counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire. They also consider causes involving young people, the relief of poverty or the environment in those counties.

Next deadline: 15 May 2026

Sainsbury’s Local Food Donation Programme

Sainsbury’s will donate food free of charge which may include fresh food (within their use by date), that is fit for human consumption to charity. You must help local people in need and be in a position to use donated food to support your beneficiaries.

Lindsays Charitable Trust

Provides funding for groups and individuals for conservation, the environment, wildlife projects, the arts and medical research. Normally supports smaller less known charities working in specialised fields.

Barrack Charitable Trust

The trust reviews its policy every two years - currently the major categories supported are: arts, heritage and culture; recreational facilities; relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health and disability.

Next deadline: 30 Sep 2025

The Morrisons Foundation

The Foundation aims to make a positive difference to people living in England, Scotland and Wales. Support covers a range of activities from children’s hospitals and homeless shelters to hospices.

Silverhill Trust

Objectives are to promote the mental, physical and social development of young people in the UK, especially those in poor circumstances (the trustees generally regard young people as being under the age of 21).