Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Andrew Paton's Charitable Trust
This Trust has general charitable purposes with a preference for Scotland, particularly the West of Scotland and Glasgow. It tends to fund the same charities each year.
Jimmie Cairncross Charitable Trust
The Jimmie Cairncross Charitable Trust can support a wide range of charitable activities in the Perth and Kinross region. Funds in the areas of Music and Arts, Disabled and Ill health, Community projects, Young People's Sport and Education.
The Edinburgh Trades Fund
Small grants for children and young people who require financial assistance for education, ill-health or family need, and/or charities which support such individuals within the City of Edinburgh.
Nadara Gordonstown Wind Farm Community Fund (Auchterless, Inverkeithny & Fisherford)
Supports activity which will sustain and develop the life of the community and ensure that the area is an attractive and vibrant place to live, work and visit in the Auchterless, Inverkeithny & Fisherford Community Council areas.
Fort Augustus and Glenmoriston Community Fund
Grants are made to groups across a wide spectrum of social, welfare, heritage, educational and community development activities. The majority of funding is directed at locally based work involving, and often initiated by, members of that local community.
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.
Dundee Historic Environment Trust
Dundee Historic Environment Trust provides grant assistance for the repair of historic buildings located in Dundee's conservation areas. They also fund heritage outreach projects.
Galloway Association of Glasgow
Grants are given to projects that support the youth of Galloway, or help the cultural development of the region or the regeneration of communities within the areas of Wigtown and Kirkcudbright.
Transport Scotland - Network Support Grant
A discretionary grant that subsidises commercial and community bus routes. It aims to keep fares at affordable levels and networks more extensive than would otherwise be the case.
St Katharine's Fund
The trust makes a large number of mostly small grants to charities, with a preference for those in Dundee and Tayside.