Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Co-operative & Community Finance Limited
Makes loans to employee or community owned social enterprises, including co-operatives, community businesses, development trusts and businesses developed from the charitable and voluntary sector.
Learning Through Landscapes - Local School Nature Grant
Small grants for outdoor learning in schools. Includes funding for outdoor equipment plus training for staff.
Next deadline: 6 Sep 2024
Charles Hayward Foundation - Overseas - Main Grants
Funds projects that improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged communities in Commonwealth Countries of Africa.
Next deadline: 16 Aug 2024
Shetland Islands Council - Community Development Fund
The grants scheme supports projects in Shetland that deliver services, activities and initiatives in relation to the priority areas including children and young people, health inequalities, and economic recovery and growth.
Next deadline: 31 May 2024
Charles Hayward Foundation - Social & Criminal Justice - Main Grants
Funds activities which prevent people entering the criminal justice system and support those already in the system to move on and rebuild their lives.
Next deadline: 16 Aug 2024
A B Charitable Trust
ABCT supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for vulnerable individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with marginalised and excluded people in society.
Next deadline: 26 Jul 2024
University of Edinburgh Community Grants Scheme
The aims of the Edinburgh Local Community Grants scheme are to: Bring value to new or existing partnerships between the University and local communities; and Have a positive social impact.
NatureScot - Nature Restoration Fund
Funded by The Scottish Government, The Nature Restoration Fund encourages applicants with projects that restore wildlife and habitats on land and sea and address the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.
Next deadline: 12 Aug 2024
The Rennie Jeffrey Boyle Trust
Supports Children or young people, Older People, People with disabilities or health problems, and projects for the benefit of the community. They tend to support the same charities each year.
Foundation Scotland - Inch Cape Construction Fund
Supports community projects that help tackle the effects of poverty and inequality while improving the environment and supporting sustainability for residents of the Prestonpans or Cockenzie & Port Seton community council areas.