Guide to finding funding
For support with funding and fundraising, take a look at our funding guide.
The Pastoral Care Trust - St Nicholas Care Fund
Applications will be considered from organisations and community groups providing direct benefit to communities for all people in need in and around Glasgow.
Next deadline: 3 Feb 2025
Delamere Dairy Foundation
Funding for projects that support agriculture and environmental protection, young people, people facing financial hardship, education and ill-health.
Opened: 1 Jan 2025
Next deadline: 28 Feb 2025
Bentley’s Advancing Life Chances Small Grants Programme
Bentley’s Advancing Life Chances Small Grants Programme provides grants to support charitable organisations working with vulnerable, disadvantaged or under-represented communities. Grants must be spent within 12 months of award.
Opened: 10 Jan 2025
Next deadline: 31 Mar 2025
Gamma Trust
The advancement of health, the arts, heritage, culture or science, the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
The Grocer's Charity - Memorial Grants
The Grocers’ Charity typically provides one-off grants for U.K. registered charities working in one of their key areas of interest.
Next deadline: 5 Sep 2025
North Ayrshire Council - Town Charitable Trust
North Ayrshire Council has a number of Charitable Trusts for particular towns and villages which are intended to provide assistance to those in need. Priorities vary by each area.
Muirden Energy - Community Benefit Funds
Muirden Energy provides community benefit funds to local communities that host their wind farms. They fund a wide range of community projects.
Hobart 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. Trustees meet in January each year and tend to support the same charities.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. Their new strategy focuses on three aims: Improving Our Natural World; Tackling injustice to deliver A Fairer Future; and Nurturing Creative, Confident Communities.
Dumfries & Galloway Council - Common Good Funds
The fund provides organisations with financial help to organise events and activities for residents in their area.