Guide to
finding funding
Key steps to think about if you’re looking to bring in income through grants or other fundraising methods.
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.
Wm Sword Charitable Trust
Grants are given to provide relief and assistance to children and other persons who are sick or are otherwise in conditions of need, hardship or distress. Preference is given to applications from small projects local to Dundee.
Creative Scotland - National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations
Supports organisations who seek funding to undertake creative activity such as a specific project or production, a programme of creative work, or a period of research and development.
Benefact Trust - Methodist Grants
Benefact Trust’s Methodist Grants Programme seeks to enhance the mission and ministry of the Methodist Church in the UK and Ireland.
Fife Council - Youth Work Grants
Fife Council’s Community Youth Work Grants Scheme offers assistance through three schemes: Youth Work Project Grant; International Youth Experience Grant; and Youth Work Volunteering Training Grant.