Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
The Art Fund - Acquisition Grant
This programme helps museums and galleries purchase works of art and objects for their collections so members of the public can experience and enjoy them.
Dumfries & Galloway Council - Area Committee Grants
Dumfries and Galloway Council can provide financial assistance to the third sector (voluntary and community organisations) who can apply to one or more of four Area Committees: Annandale and Eskdale; Nithsdale; Stewartry; Wigtown.
Scottish Forestry - Community Fund
The Community Fund supports groups and organisations that encourage people to use woods more.
Beautiful Trouble - Get Up, Rise Up (GURU) Direct Action Fund
To support activists globally to shift power through strategic nonviolent direct actions to create a more socially and ecologically just, healthy, and equitable world for all.
Open Technology Fund - Internet Freedom Fund
This fund supports innovative internet freedom projects, including technology development, research, digital security projects, and convenings.
NESTA - Arts & Culture Impact Fund
The Arts & Culture Impact Fund is a £20 million impact investment fund for the UK's arts, culture and heritage social enterprises. The fund offers loans repayable until March 2032.
The Paristamen Charity - Responsive Grants
Paristamen Responsive Grants are intended to make a contribution to the running costs of a wide range of small/medium charities operating in Scotland.
Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation
Small grants for projects that support those in need of a safe and secure home.
Consortium - LGBT+ Fund: Collective Nurture Fund
The aim of this fund is for organisations supporting LGBT+ global majority communities to be well-resourced, sustainable, and equipped to strengthen connections, build resilience, and meet the needs of those who may feel marginalised within the wider LGBT
Environmental Key Fund - Blacklaw Windfarm Community Benefit Fund
The Blacklaw Windfarm Community Benefit Fund is open to communities living closest to the windfarm development through a community and environmental grants scheme.
Next deadline: 3 Dec 2025