Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
The Truemark Trust
Small grants are available to mostly small local charities across the UK for the relief of all kinds of social distress and disadvantage.
Shetland Islands Council - Support to community facilities
This grant aid scheme designed to assist a number of named voluntary organisations, which manage and/or maintain youth facilities and sports facilities, with their annual running costs.
Creative Scotland Crowdmatch
Creative individuals, groups or businesses are encouraged to share their creative ideas in order to take part in a competition to win up to £10,000 from Creative Scotland towards their crowdfunding campaign.
Women's Fund for Scotland
The Women’s Fund for Scotland (WFS) makes unrestricted grants to projects across Scotland that support women’s development, self-sufficiency and social and economic equality.
Next deadline: 18 Nov 2025
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.
Children's Alliance Grant Funding
Children's Alliance are providing grant funding to get children into water safely to learn, develop and purposefully play for the benefit of children’s physical and mental wellbeing.
Pets Foundation - Preventing Pet Relinquishment
Funding to projects which aim to keep pets with their owners and out of rescue. This includes projects providing emergency pet fostering for people facing crisis, subsidised veterinary care, neutering schemes, and pet food banks.
Angus Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
Aims to support community-based initiatives that promote and develop good mental health and wellbeing and/or mitigate the impact of distress and mental ill health within the adult population.
Next deadline: 5 Jan 2026
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 Neil Mackenzie Trust
Provides grants to assist young people and adults to carry out skills training in non-competitive outdoor sports in Scotland and adventures and expeditions anywhere in the world