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.

Next deadline: 30 Oct 2026

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.

Clothworkers' Foundation - Open Grants Programme

The Open Grants Programme funds capital costs that support the infrastructure needs of small- and medium-sized charitable organisations working with disadvantaged and marginalised people and communities.

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.

The Robertson Trust - Advancing Racial Justice Fund

Focused on supporting Black and People of Colour (BPoC) led organisations in Scotland that are working to tackle to the root causes of racism.

Next deadline: 14 Oct 2026

South Lanarkshire Renewable Energy Fund - Micro Grants

Awards micro grants to support local constituted and non-constituted groups for activity which is community focused

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: 23 Oct 2026

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 2026