Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Creative Scotland - Youth Music Initiative: Strengthening Youth Music
Supports strategic action, research or training that will strengthen the youth music sector in Scotland for the benefit of children and young people.
Opened: 10 Oct 2024
Next deadline: 19 Nov 2024
Creative Scotland - Youth Music Initiative: Access to Music Making
Creates access to high quality music making opportunities for young people aged 0-25 years outwith school time. Children and young people must develop their music and music-making skills.
Next deadline: 19 Nov 2024
Scottish Forestry - Forestry Grants
The Forestry Grant Scheme offers financial support for the creation of new woodland and the sustainable management of existing woodland.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. Their new strategy focuses on three aims: Improving Our Natural World; Tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future; and Nurturing Creative, Confident Communities.
The Scottish Football Partnership Trust
Applications are invited from any football organisation, from senior clubs in the Scottish Premier League to children’s teams competing at a local level.
Carnegie Dunfermline Trust
Grants are given for projects and activities with social, community, educational, cultural, sporting and recreational purposes. The Trust looks for innovative and far reaching proposals, together with those that particularly impact on young people.
Robert Barr's Charitable Trust
The Barr Charitable Trust has wide charitable purposes and has historically supported a wide range of charitable activities. The Trustees tend to favour capital projects rather than running costs.
The Whirlwind Charitable Trust
The Whirlwind Charitable Trust provide grants for disadvantaged children sailing and a wide range of other outdoor and marine-related pursuits and projects.
Youth Scotland - What's your big idea?
What's Your Big Idea? is a small grants fund for young people to apply for a small amount of funding to help get an exciting idea off the ground.
Next deadline: 31 Oct 2024
Carcant Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund (Heriot)
The fund provides grants to support community charitable activities in Heriot.