Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Alpkit Foundation
The Alpkit Foundation make small awards to people, groups and schools that work to remove the barriers in getting outdoors and experience wild places.
Scottish Refugee Council - Small Grants Scheme
The Refugee Festival Scotland Small Grants Fund aims to help celebrate and highlight the contribution that refugee communities make to life in Scotland, while promoting and strengthening partnerships and connections.
Due to open: 5 Jan 2026
Aberdeenshire Charities Trust (ACT2)
Aberdeenshire Charities Trust administers charitable funds in Aberdeenshire. It covers a range of areas including the relief of poverty, arts, heritage and culture, and the environment.
The Joseph Rank Trust
The Trustees have two main areas of interest: projects that demonstrate a Christian approach to the practical, educational and spiritual needs of people of all ages and the adaptation of Church properties.
Buccleuch Charitable Foundation
The Foundation supports a wide range of organisations including supporting arts, sport, heritage, health, welfare and youth work.
George E T Salvesen Charitable Trust
The fund purposes are to support: the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health; the saving of lives; the advancement of citizenship or community development; the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or
Highland Council - Nature Restoration Fund
The Nature Restoration Fund is a capital fund designed to help support projects that will deliver nature restoration, safeguard wildlife, and tackle the causes of biodiversity loss due to climate change.
Next deadline: 23 Jan 2026
FCC Scottish Action Fund
The FCC Scottish Action Fund offers funding to projects through the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund. The objectives are to fund environmentally-friendly projects which meet a proven community need, offer value for money and are sustainable.
Due to open: 25 Feb 2026
Henry Smith Foundation - Holiday Grants Programme
The Holiday Grants Programme offers one-off grants for schools, youth groups and non-profit organisations to take children aged 13 and under on recreational day trips or short residential trips.
Next deadline: 20 Mar 2026
The Wolfson Foundation - Funding for Places
The Foundation's main grants programme provides support for places. They fund capital initiatives across a broad range of organisations working across the fields of education, science and medicine, health and disability and arts and humanities.
Next deadline: 5 Jan 2026