Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Firstport - Social Innovation Challenge
The Social Innovation Challenge is a programme that funds and supports innovators to kick-start solutions that tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. The current theme is aligned with four key priorities.
Highland Alcohol and Drugs Partnership - Community Fund
The Community Fund aims to provide grants for one off funding for small-scale projects up to a value of £2,500 whose outcomes align with one or more of the National Drugs Mission Outcomes.
Due to open: 1 Sep 2025
SSE - Clyde Borders Community Fund
Supports the community council areas of Skirling, Upper Tweed and Tweedsmuir. The Fund aims to promote community spirit and bring people together; enhance quality of life and promote people’s well-being; and foster vibrant sustainable communities.
Next deadline: 3 Oct 2025
SSE - Clyde Extension Community Fund
Supports community-focussed projects in the community council areas of Duneaton, Biggar, Symington and Quothquan & Thankerton.
Next deadline: 19 Sep 2025
LNER - Customer and Community Investment Fund
The core themes the fund supports are mental health, equality, diversity and inclusion, social mobility for vulnerable groups and environmental sustainability.
Next deadline: 25 Aug 2025
Galloway Association of Glasgow
Grants are given to projects that support the youth of Galloway, or help the cultural development of the region or the regeneration of communities within the areas of Wigtown and Kirkcudbright.
SIB - Community Builders Fund
The Community Builders Fund is for UK charities and social enterprises based in England, Wales and Scotland who are improving people’s lives, or the environment they live in.
The Sir Halley Stewart Trust
The Trust funds projects that focus on the prevention (rather than the alleviation) of human suffering. They have three priority areas Medical, Social and Religious, with education being a central theme that runs across all three.
Next deadline: 24 Oct 2025
Friends Provident Foundation
Aims to fund organisations and activities that support their vision of a fair and sustainable economy.
CAF - Venturesome Impact Fund
CAF provides social investment loans which are unsecured. Investments are tailored to the needs of the organisations they finance and can be used for working capital, delivering new services or building organisational resilience.