Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
Darroch Charitable Trust
The trust has general charitable purposes, with a preference for the West of Scotland.
Kintore Charitable Trust
The Trustees favour community causes in the counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire. They also consider causes involving young people, the relief of poverty or the environment in those counties.
Next deadline: 15 May 2025
Unity Trust Bank - Loans
Provides tailored loans that will help to create jobs or bring wider economic, social or environmental benefit.
The Will Charitable Trust
The Trust provides financial assistance to UK registered or exempt charities whose activities fall within the following three categories, care of and services for blind people, people with learning disabilities, and people suffering from cancer.
The Tillyloss Trust
Preference may be given to smaller charities benefiting or assisting young people belonging to, or associated with, the City of Dundee and smaller organisations encouraging medical research and the relief of suffering.
The Mary Leishman Foundation
The foundation's aims are simply to encourage potential and ease distress.
Business Energy Scotland - SME Loan Fund
Funded by the Scottish Government, this scheme aims to support charities and not-for-profit organisations that are looking to reduce costs through improved energy, material resource and water efficiency.
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.
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.
Quaker Housing Trust - Best Practice Grant
Supports charitable housing projects at an early stage which give safe, affordable, and often supported, homes to people of all ages and meeting a wide variety of housing needs.