Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
The Conservation Volunteers - The Chestnut Fund
Makes grants available to encourage and enable community groups to carry out conservation activities. There are two types of grants; Start-up and Support grants.
The Fat Beehive Foundation
The Fat Beehive Foundation is an independent UK registered charity that provides small grants for websites and digital products to other small UK registered charities. Their funding priority for this quarter is Education.
Next deadline: 30 Sep 2025
Falkirk Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
Funding available in Falkirk to support a range of organisations deliver community-based projects to address local mental health and wellbeing needs.
Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust - Funding and Bagpipe Loans
The Trust aims to advance education the arts, heritage, culture and community development by encouraging young people in Scotland to take up and play the chanter, pipes and drums, and by supporting the development of school pipe bands.
The Blair Foundation
The Foundation was established to create environmental conditions in which wildlife can prosper, as well as improving disability access to such areas.
Rannoch Trust
The Rannoch Trust supports a range of charitable activities, including those relating to the advancement of education; religion; human rights; conflict resolution and reconciliation; and environment protection.
Moto Foundation
Provides grants to small charities and community groups within a 25-mile radius of Moto’s 57 locations - 3 are in Scotland (Kinross, Edinburgh and Stirling). Focus is on safety and the environment.
Ferguson Bequest Fund
The principle activities of the fund are the maintenance and repair of church buildings throughout Scotland with priority to churches in the west and south west of Scotland. Support is also given for new initiatives and projects in Christian Mission.
Figurative - The Arts & Culture Impact Fund
The Arts & Culture Impact Fund provides affordable repayable finance that can be used, among other things, to acquire new assets, improve built infrastructure, develop new ventures or scale up existing revenue streams.
Soirbheas - Apprenticeship Grant Scheme
The Apprenticeship Grant scheme encourages local economic and business growth by providing training opportunities for young people aged 16 to 24.