Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - Apart Not Alone: Support for Serving Families
Grants are available for projects that will help to mitigate the impact of long or frequent involuntary separation for families, spouses, and serving personnel, including reservists and their families.
Next deadline: 21 Jan 2026
Delamere Dairy Foundation
Funding for projects that support agriculture and environmental protection, young people, people facing financial hardship, education and ill-health.
Solwaybank Windfarm Community Benefit Fund
Funds projects and initiatives that support the rural regeneration and sustainability of communities within the Solwaybank Windfarm area and enhance the lives of those living and working in the area will be supported.
Next deadline: 31 Jan 2026
Family Fund - BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme
BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. It aims to provide grant items that meet a child or young person’s most basic needs or are critical to their 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.
Youth Arts Open Fund
The Youth Arts Open Fund supports artists or organisations to deliver arts activity for children and young people – primarily those who have traditionally found it hardest to access such opportunities.
Next deadline: 25 Aug 2025
Creative Scotland - Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance
Supports touring of high-quality theatre and dance (including outdoor, circus, interdisciplinary and site-specific work).
Next deadline: 24 Sep 2025
Lintel Trust - Reduce, ReUse & Raise Funds
Aims to encourage communities to reduce landfill by promoting skills in upcycling, re-using or recycling; and to empower Glasgow communities to raise funds for improvements they want to see
Carsphairn Renewable Energy Fund
Supports projects that would benefit the community and assist inhabitants of the parish to continue their learning through further education. Grants should benefit the social, religious and educational life of the community.
Next deadline: 30 Oct 2025
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.
Due to open: 1 Oct 2025