Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
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.
Educational Opportunity Foundation - Subsidiary Trusts
Educational Opportunity Foundation administers a number of restricted funds which accept funding applications. Only one is relevant to Scotland.
Culture & Business Fund Scotland
The fund supports innovative and mutually beneficial partnerships between Scottish businesses and arts and heritage organisations to deliver new arts and heritage projects.
The Robert Clutterbuck Trust
They prefer their grants to be applied for the purchase of specific items to assist: Armed forces and veterans, sports and recreation for young people, the welfare of domestic animals, natural history and wildlife.
Next deadline: 31 Dec 2024
Carscreugh Renewable Energy Park Ltd (CREPL)
The fund supports a broad range of community activity and development by supporting the charitable activities of community, not-for-profit groups.
Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Coalfields Community Investment Programme
The Coalfields Community Investment Programme is a small fund created to support activities that tackle some of the key challenges that still remain in coalfield communities.
The Stevenson Trust
The trustee’s principal aim is to provide financial support to individuals, groups and organisations which operate in Langholm and the surrounding area or for the benefit of its inhabitants although national charities are also supported.
DofE Award - Access Without Limits Community Funding
The fund offers grant funding for eligible voluntary and community organisations to set up and deliver the DofE, including the enrolment costs for marginalised young people across the UK.
Next deadline: 1 Jan 2026
Scottish Forestry - Forestry Grant Scheme - Forest Infrastructure
Provides support for new access infrastructure that will bring small scale, undermanaged woodlands or inaccessible woodlands back into active management.
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.