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.
Hazel's Footprints Trust
Third Aim Grants are to improve the quality and reach of education across the developing world and provide financial assistance to educational institutions that are looking to expand.
Barbara Ward Children's Foundation
The Foundation is a small grant-making body that helps the smaller non-religious charities to serve severely disadvantaged children anywhere in the world where grants are likely to make a real difference.
John Kirkhope Young Endowment Fund
Objectives are: research for medicine and surgery in Edinburgh; the physical wellbeing of the youth in Edinburgh; research in Chemistry as affecting industry in the UK; charities whose objective is the restoration of the sick to health.
Andrew & Mary Elizabeth Little Charitable Trust
Provides relief and direct assistance to aged, infirm, blind, poor, impoverished, distressed or sick person or persons with preference for the City of Glasgow. Funds are given to individuals and organisations.
Ashworth Charitable Trust
The Ashworth Charitable Trust is a small grant-making charity. It was created primarily to support humanitarian causes operating locally, nationally and internationally. For the most part, the Trust looks to fund projects and not core funding.
The W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation
Trustees are interested in supporting a diverse range of charities which support older people over the age of 65, from large institutions to small community-run organisations. Grants are loosely divided into health and community categories.
Next deadline: 10 Sep 2025
Heart Research UK - Healthy Heart Grants
Funding is available for new community projects working with adults, that focus on promoting healthy hearts and reducing the risk factors associated with heart diseases.
Opened: 11 Jun 2025
Next deadline: 9 Jul 2025
The Tree Council - Branching Out Fund
The Tree Council has funds available to assist schools and community groups proposing to undertake well-planned tree planting projects during National Tree Week.
Next deadline: 14 Nov 2025
The Tree Council - Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund
The Tree Council and Network Rail are once again working in partnership to support a new season of community tree planting. They invite applications for funding to support impactful community tree planting projects.
Next deadline: 31 Jul 2025