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The Robertson Trust - Wee Grants
The purpose of Wee Grants is to fund initiatives at a local level, focusing on work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma in local communities.
The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland) - Strengthening Organisations
This funding is for organisations in Scotland, that National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) currently funds. They want to support organisations to try out new ideas and ways of working.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence.
Hugh Fraser Foundation
Makes donations to registered charities which are active in such sectors as the arts and culture, medical & health, the environment and education, care and support of the young and elderly, people with disabilities and the under-privileged.
The National Lottery Community Fund - (Scotland) - Young Start
Young Start is a grants programme that distributes money from dormant bank accounts. They will support a wide range of projects for up to three years that will make children and young people aged 8 to 24 confident, healthy, connected or enterprising.
Next deadline: 19 Dec 2025
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - Social Investment
The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. They also offer social investment.
The John Ellerman Foundation
Funds charitable organisations that at their core are committed to ensuring the rights of people, society and the natural world for current and future generations.
South Lanarkshire Renewable Energy Fund - Micro Grants
Awards micro grants to support local constituted and non-constituted groups for activity which is community focused
1001 Critical Days Foundation - Grants
1001 Critical Days Foundation awards grants to UK registered charities delivering work that supports babies during the 1001 critical days – from pregnancy to the age of two.
Next deadline: 19 Dec 2025
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: 30 Jan 2026