Guide to
finding funding
Key steps to think about if you’re looking to bring in income through grants or other fundraising methods.
Jimmie Cairncross Charitable Trust
The Jimmie Cairncross Charitable Trust can support a wide range of charitable activities in the Perth and Kinross region. Funds in the areas of Music and Arts, Disabled and Ill health, Community projects, Young People's Sport and Education.
Air Discount Scheme
The Air Discount Scheme (ADS) aims to tackle the problem of high air fares for the remotest communities in the Highlands and Islands by providing a discount of 50% on the core air fare on eligible routes.
Renfrewshire Council - Sustainable Communities Fund
The Sustainable Communities Fund aims to support local people to develop sustainable projects that will promote or improve community collaboration, health and wellbeing, local spaces, economic development, biodiversity and the environment.
Dundee City Council - The UK Shared Prosperity Fund
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a UK-wide fund launched as a domestic replacement to the EU Structural and Investment Funds. Dundee City Council will receive and manage the allocation for Dundee.
Next deadline: 6 May 2024
Evelyn Drysdale Charitable Trust
The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. The trustees will employ their discretion in order to determine which charitable initiatives they support.
Community Enterprise - Accelerate
Accelerate is a programme of free business and organisational support targeted at third sector organisations and community groups who are not trading.
Carsphairn Renewables 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: 31 Jul 2024
A E B Charitable Trust
The AEB Charitable Trust make grants in a wide range of areas including wildlife, health, and the elderly. The Trust favours organisations in the Lothians and Borders areas.
Next deadline: 30 Nov 2024
James Wood Bequest Fund
Grants are made to a wide range of charities including medical care, disabilities, family support, carers and more.
Arthur & Margaret Thompson's Charitable Trust
To support charitable institutions, societies and/or indigent persons connected with the town or burgh of Kinross and its immediate neighbourhood at the discretion of the trustees.