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Firstport - Launch Me
LaunchMe is Scotland’s social enterprise accelerator. It prepares ambitious social enterprises and community organisations for growth so they can achieve social impact at scale.
Firstport - Social Entrepreneurs - Build It
A Build It award is for social enterprises with a track record of trading and social impact and that need salaried positions to take the business to the next level of financial sustainability.
Next deadline: 25 Sep 2025
Firstport - Social Entrepreneurs Fund - Start It
Start It is a funding programme that helps budding social entrepreneurs in Scotland to get their businesses up and running. Funding comes from the Scottish Government’s Social Entrepreneurs Fund.
Firstport - Social Innovation Challenge
The Social Innovation Challenge is a programme that funds and supports innovators to kick-start solutions that tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. The current theme is aligned with four key priorities.
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.
Fletchers Foundation
Fletchers Foundation provides financial grants that can be used for aids and equipment, rehabilitation treatment, or a whole host of wider uses that will help individuals with their recovery or quality of life.
For Bute Grants
For Bute runs a charity thrift shop to raise funds to support local groups and individuals in Bute. It supports a wide variety of causes.
Forces in Mind Trust
FiMT was established to improve the transition of Service personnel, and their families, from military into civilian life, focusing on those most vulnerable to failure.
Forteviot Charitable Trust
The trust supports a wide range of charitable activities in the City of Perth which the Trustees feel are beneficial to the City of Perth.
Forth Giving
The society funds individuals who find themselves in a situation of crisis and organisations supporting disadvantaged members of the community.