Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Weavers Benevolent Fund
Funds are given to help disadvantaged young people and to address problems faced by offenders, ex-offenders and their families. There is a preference for supporting smaller charities which provide direct services.
Next deadline: 13 Mar 2025
The Mary Leishman Foundation
The foundation's aims are simply to encourage potential and ease distress.
Mr and Mrs JMB Trust
The Trustees' primary focus of support is to recognise charities, working both locally in Scotland and abroad, promoting or involved in humanitarian works, the alleviation of suffering and the furtherance of education.
Digital Xtra
The core objective of Digital Xtra is to inspire young people to learn digital technologies skills through high quality, exciting extracurricular activities, thus expanding Scotland’s future talent pipeline.
Next deadline: 27 Mar 2025
Scottish Building Society Foundation
The Scottish Building Society Foundation will aim to invest in the long-term future of communities in Scotland. They are looking to provide financial support to charities and community groups.
Due to open: 1 May 2025
Scotland's Finest Woods Awards
The annual Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards’ Programme strives to reward and showcase all that is best in Scotland’s forests and woods.
Next deadline: 31 Mar 2025
The John Ellerman Foundation
The Foundation aims to advance the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world by focusing on the arts, environment and social action. Grants are made in three categories: Arts, Environment and Social Action.
Brownlie Charitable Trust
The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. They fund mostly under the headings of adult and child welfare and medical research but also support armed services welfare, humanitarian aid and education.
The Helvellyn Foundation
The Helvellyn is a proactive funder who conduct their own research and reach out to organisations when appropriate. Their focus is around biodiversity, climate and the environment.
Film Hub Scotland - Film Exhibition Fund
Funding to help you engage audiences, promote British, independent, and international cultural cinema, and make your work accessible and open to all.
Next deadline: 28 Mar 2025